Complaint Lands Russian K-9 Cop In Psychiatric Hospital
(World News Russia)

Oksana Semykina feared reprisals when she complained about having to work lots of overtime with little time off, but being shipped off to a psychiatric hospital wasn`t one of them. But that`s exactly what happened to the 36-year-old policewoman in early August, shortly after she expressed concerns to supervisors about her work with the K-9 unit at a St. Petersburg police precinct. A police union official said the cop-on-cop case marked a first in Russia, where police locking up critics in psychiatric hospitals is a tradition that dates back to the early Soviet days. The case sparked an outcry in Russia, and more than 230,000 people signed an online petition addressed to President Vladimir...