No 8 : 30 June 1969

HUMAN RIGHTS YEAR IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES

1. The trial of Boris Kochubievsky (Kiev)

2. The trial of Ilya Burmistrovich

3. The arrest of Pyotr Grigorenko (Tashkent)

4. The arrest of IIya Gabai

5. The Crimean Tatars’ 6 June demonstration on Mayakovsky Square

6. A second attempted self-immolation in the Ukraine

7. The fate of dissenters declared mentally ill

8. Alexander Ginzburg’s hunger strike

9. Anatoly Marchenko again under investigation

10. An Appeal to the UN Commission on Human Rights

11. The Union of Independent Youth (Vladimir)

12. Extra-judicial political persecution, 1968-1969

13. Samizdat update

14. News in brief

15. Addenda [Uniate persecution, Nikolai Berislavsky]

16. Appendix to No 8. Reply to a reader

[Commentary No 8]

SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION

First publication in English, Uncensored Russia, 1972

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