According to the Russian justice system, 46-year-old Joseph Tater was arrested in August 2024 and accused of assaulting a police officer after the avantion in a Moscow hotel, when he verbally attacked employees. If he is convicted, he faces up to five years in prison, the Russian media informed.
According to the state agency TASS, the Moscow court granted the application of the doctors of the psychiatric hospital for forced hospitalization of the American due to mental disorders. As TASS wrote on the basis of court documents, a medical commission composed of doctors of the Aleksiejew psychiatric hospital in Moscow stated on March 15 that Tatra had “tension, impulsiveness (and) delusional ideas and attitudes”, including the sense of “persecution” and “lack of critical thinking about his condition” – informs the AFP.
Psychiatric Hospital in Moscow. The clinic enjoys a bad story
The American was placed at the Psychiatric Institute of Serbian in Moscow known from Soviet times, when Russian dissidents were placed in it, attributing to them illness and psychiatric disorders, AFP reminds.
Joseph Tatra's lawyer appealed against the decision to hospitalize him, accusing Russia of making the decision “isolating the accused from society by placing him in a psychiatric hospital” and stated that his client came to Russia “in order to obtain political asylum from President Putin in connection with the persecution of relevant American authorities” – AFP relates for Russian agencies. information.
During the September interrogation before the court, Tater testified that he wanted to renounce American citizenship because he has been considered persecuted by the CIA for years.
