A shaman who attempted to walk 5,160 miles from Siberia to Moscow to topple Vladimir Putin has been committed indefinitely to a mental asylum.
Alexander "Sasha" Gabyshev was earlier removed from his home by armed riot police and placed in a psychiatric hospital. Amnesty International likened his treatment to dissidents in the Stalin era, claiming he had been made "an enemy of the state solely for voicing his dislike of Putin".
The mayor of Russia 's coldest city Yakutsk, Sardana Avksentyeva, had pleaded for mercy to no avail. She indicated the judge in the case had been placed "under colossal emotional pressure" to lock up the 51-year-old mystic in a mental asylum.
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