*
Letters & Statements
- 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
***
*
50 (18 May 1978): “The trial of Professor Yury Orlov” (CCE 50.1).
51 (22 May 1978): The arrest of Alexander Podrabinek (CCE 50.7).
52 (5 June 1978): “The arrest of Vladimir Slepak. 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 IOC President, 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): “Verdicts in the cases of A. Ginzburg, A. Shcharansky, and V. Petkus” (CCE No. 50). This was the first document signed by a new Moscow Helsinki Group member, Sergei Polikanov.
57 (20 July 1978): “Appeal Court hearings in the cases of Yu. Orlov & V. Slepak” (CCE No. 50).
58 (16 Aug 1978): “Ten Years Later” (10th anniversary of invasion by Soviet troops of Czechoslovakia, cf. CCE 3).
59 (20 Aug 1978): “Trial of Ukrainian Helsinki Group member Levko Lukyanenko” (CCE 50.6).
60 (2 Sept 1978): “Discrimination against the Crimean Tatars continues” (CCE 51.13).
61 (5 Sept 1978): “Violation of the rights of prisoners to do creative work”.
- A “List of scholars & creative people who are political prisoners” (26 people) is attached.
62 (9 Sept 1978): “Inhuman conditions of imprisonment. The lives of Kirill Podrabinek and Pyotr Vins are in danger” (CCE 51.9).
63 (18 Sept 1978): “Jewish collective-farm workers in the village of Ilynka — forcibly tied to the land and refused permission to emigrate” (CCE 51.16).
64 (25 Sept 1978): “Persecution of the True & Free Adventist Church (TFDA)” (CCE 51.15).
65 (18 Oct 1978): Propaganda campaign to discredit the democratic movement in USSR” (CCE 51.19-2 [11]).
66 (30 Oct 1978): “30 October is Political Prisoner Day in the USSR” (CCE 51.19-1).
67 (30 Oct 1978): “Medical services for prisoners” [1], CCEs 46-49 and CCE 51.9.
68 (30 Oct 1978): “The position of prisoners with regard to correspondence” (CCE 51.9).
*
<<Moscow Helsinki Group (documents 1-195): 1976-1982>>
========================================
NOTES
English translations of the different Helsinki Group statements may be found in
- [1-3] Reports of Helsinki Accord Monitors: 1 (Feb 1977), 2 (June 1977), 3 (Nov 1978),
- [4] The Right to Know, the Right to Act, Washington, 1978.
*
============================
