No 31 : 17 May 1974

ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES.

Digitised. Page-spread numbers in pdf version (CCEs 28-31) indicated in [square brackets] after many items in this Contents page.

CCE 31 PDF [65-83]

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THE CRIMEAN TATAR MOVEMENT

Introduction

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PART ONE

Events of 1973-1974

[1] TASHKENT TRIALS

1. Dzheppar AKIMOV

2. Reshat DZHEMILEV [67]

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[2] CRIMEA

3. The position of the Crimean Tatars in the Crimea

STATEMENTS BY CRIMEAN TATARS [69-71]

4. Complaint of Eldar Shabanov to the UN General Secretary (Kurt Waldheim)

5. Statement of Sarie Tokhlu to Kurt Waldheim (UN General Secretary)

6. Statement by Mamade Chobanov

7. Letter from Uris Kurtseitova

8. “If you are a Crimean Tatar …” (Anafi Nafeyev)

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[3] UKRAINE TRIAL

9. The trial of Kurtumerov, Khalilov and Ramazanov (Zaporozhe)

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PART TWO

Documents, 1966-1974

Texts 16, 21 and 25 are reproduced in full; texts 10-12 and 18 in extracts, but without any editorial treatment.

The remaining texts have to a greater or lesser extent been summarized (Chronicle).

1966-7

10. Appeal to the 23rd Party Congress (1966)

11. “Newsletter” No. 5 (1967) [73]

1971

12. Appeal to 24th Party Congress (1971)

13. Statement on the Crimean Question (1971)

14. A Census conducted by the People Themselves [75]

15. “Information Sheet” No. 108 (1971)

1972

16. “Newsletter” No. 25 (1972)

17. An appeal to the Politburo (1972)

18. Demands concerning the Tatars’ National Fate (1972)

19. A Wave of Persecution in the Uzbek SSR (1972) [78]

1973

20. Demand for Answers from the Politburo (1973)

21. Letter to UN Secretary-General and others (1973)

22. Activity of the Chauvinists in Soviet Law-Making (1973) [79]

23. “Newsletter” No. 26 (1973)

1973-4

24. Crimean Tatar delegates in Moscow: “Information Sheets” Nos. 112 & 113 (1973-4)

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APPENDICES

25. Letter to Kurt Waldheim from Moscow rights activists (1974)

26. Two documents (1968): Criminal Case No. 103, Uzbek SSR Procuracy [82]

[27. CCEs 29-31, name index & bibliographical note, 83-86]

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SEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

First publication in English by Amnesty International (preface May 1975);

and see Chronicle of Human Rights, 1974

CCE 28-31 : 31 December 1972 to 7 May 1974 (AI pdf)

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Also see 3. The CRIMEAN TATAR movement (1968-1980)

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