- 20-1. Emigration (the right to leave); The Christian Committee
- 20-2. On the trial of Yury Orlov (10 items).
- 20-3. Documents 50-68 of the Moscow Helsinki Group (<<MHG (docs 1-195): 1976-1982>>)
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50 (18 May 1978): “The trial of Professor Yury Orlov” (CCE 50.1).
51 (22 May 1978): Concerning the arrest of Alexander Podrabinek (CCE 50.7).
52 (5 June 1978): “The arrest of Vladimir Slepak. The preparation of a criminal case against Maria Slepak and Ida Nudel” (CCE 50.8-1).
53 (15 June 1978): “Supplement to Document No. 50”.
54 (26 June 1978): “The verdicts in the cases of V. Slepak and I. Nudel” (CCE 50.8).
55 (26 June 1978): “To the International Olympic Committee; To the President of the IOC, Lord M. Killanin” (CCE 51.20-1 [12] excerpt).
“We urge you to demand uncompromisingly that contacts between people, cultural exchange, entry into the country, etc. are possible at the 22nd Olympiad to the same extent as at previous ones. … We call on you to demand a ‘ceasefire’ as a necessary condition for holding the Olympic Games in the USSR, to demand an end to persecution for non-violent activities in defence of human rights, for religious activities, for attempts to exercise the right to freedom of choice regarding one’s country of residence and one’s place of residence within one’s country … We call upon you to demand the release of all PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE.”
56 (15 July 1978): “The verdicts in the cases of A. Ginzburg, A. Shcharansky, V. Petkus” (CCE No. 50). This document is the first to be signed by a new member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. S. Polikanov.
57 (20 July 1978): “On the Appeal Court hearings in the cases of Yu. Orlov and V. Slepak” (CCE No. 50).
58 (16 August 1978): “Ten Years Later” (on the tenth anniversary of the invasion by Soviet troops of Czechoslovakia cf. //CCE No. 3).
59 (20 August 1978): “The trial of Ukrainian Helsinki Group member Levko Lukyanenko” (CCE 50.6).
60 (2 September 1978): “Discrimination against the Crimean Tatars continues” (CCE 51.13).
61 (5 September 1978): “On the violation of the rights of prisoners to do creative work”. A “List of scholars and creative people who are political prisoners” (26 people) is attached.
62 (9 September 1978): “Inhuman conditions of imprisonment. The lives of Kirill Podrabinek and Pyotr Vins are in danger” (CCE 51.9).
63 (18 September 1978): “Jewish collective-farm workers in the village of Ilynka are forcibly tied to the land and refused permission to emigrate” (CCE 51.16).
64 (25 September 1978): “Persecution of the True and Free Adventist Church” (CCE 51.15).
65 (18 October 1978): The propaganda campaign to discredit the democratic movement in the USSR” (// CCE 51.19-2).
66 (30 October 1978): “30 October is Political Prisoner Day in the USSR” (CCE 51.19-1).
67 (30 October 1978): “On medical services for prisoners” [1], CCEs 46-49 and CCE 51.9.
68 (30 October 1978): “The position of prisoners with regard to correspondence” (CCE 51.9).
<<Moscow Helsinki Group (documents 1-195): 1976-1982>>
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NOTES
English translations of the different Helsinki Group statements may be found in
[1-3] Reports of Helsinki Accord Monitors: Vol 1 (Feb 1977), Vol 2 (June 1977), Vol 3 (Nov 1978)
and [4] The Right to Know, the Right to Act, Washington, 1978.
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