Rights group criticizes decision to commit journalist to psychiatric hospital

    Kazakhstan's Bureau for Human Rights has criticized authorities for placing a journalist in a psychiatric hospital.     Chairman of the Almaty-based bureau, Yevgeny Zhovtis, told journalists on May 14 that the case of Aleksandr Kharlamov is reminiscent of the Soviet-era, when dissidents were regularly placed in psychiatric hospitals.     Kharlamov was arrested in...