THE MOVEMENT TO DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES

1. The trial of Amalrik and Ubozhko

• Andrei Amalrik’s farewell address

2. The trial of Valentin Moroz

3. Solzhenitsyn’s letters to the Nobel Foundation

4. The Committee for Human Rights in the USSR

5. Public statements regarding the trial of Pimenov, Vail and Zinovieva

6. The Leningrad trial of the “hi-jackers”

• Public statements after the trial

7. Trials of recent years: the case of the UNF [Ukrainian National Front]

8. Persecution of Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel

9. Leonid Rigerman, American citizenship and the Soviet police

10. The fate of Fritz Menders

11. Political prisoners in the Mordovian camps

12. News in brief

13. Samizdat update

14. Those arrested in 1969 and tried in 1970

• Supplement to No 17, pt 1

15. Those arrested in 1970

• Supplement to No 17, pt 2

Commentary No 17

ТHIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION

First English publication, Amnesty International, April 1971

No 18 : 5 March 1971 ….