MHG Documents 99-111, Aug-Nov 1979 (54.23-2)

<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>>

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99 (25 August 1979): Persecution of Baptists in Ryazan Region (CCE 54.19).

100 (30 August 1979): “Repressive measures on ideological grounds, August 1978-August 1979” (10 pp.)

Sub-headings — Ukraine; Armenia; the Baltic Republics; the Moscow Helsinki Group; the Inter-Trade Association of Working People; the Uncensored Journal Searches (Moscow); a Youth Group of Social-Communist Tendency; the Journal Perspectives (Leningrad); the Christian Seminar; Baptists, Pentecostalists and Adventists; the Emigration of Germans; Emigration (irrespective of reasons); the Crimean Tatars, a Return to the Homeland [1].

Appendix No. 1 — A list of 113 arrested people, giving brief details of their cases. There are six further appendices.

101 (17 September 1979): “Threats against the Moscow Helsinki Group” (CCE 54.19-1, CCE 54.22).

102 (7 October 1979): “Events in the Ukraine; Criminal Terror against the movement for the rule of law” (CCE 53.17, CCE 54.11).

103 (7 October 1979): “The arrest of Eduard Arutyunyan” (CCE 53.18).

104 (13 October 1979): “Fresh attempts to suppress publicity and charity” (the 11 October searches at the homes of Tatyana Velikanova and Tatyana Osipova: CCE 54.19-1).

105 (29 October 1979): Ivan Kovalyov, the son of Sergei Kovalyov, has joined the Moscow Helsinki Group.

106 (30 October 1979): “An amnesty of political prisoners” (cf. CCE 47.15 [17-20]).

107 (30 October 1979): “The trial of six Czechoslovak campaigners for the rule of law”.

108 (30 October 1979): “Chistopol Prison” (CCE 53.19-1, CCE 54.13-1).

109 (30 October 1979): “The imprisonment of those serving 25-year terms, invalids, old people and women.”

110 (30 October 1979): “The amnesty for women, declared in connection with the International Year of the Child, does not extend to prisoners of conscience”.

111 (3 November 1979): “A sharp increase in the persecution of the movement for the rule of law in the USSR” (arrests of Tatyana Velikanova, Gleb Yakunin and Antanas Terleckas: CCE 54.1, CCE 54.18).

<<Moscow Helsinki Group documents (1-195), 1976-1982>>

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NOTES

  1. Crimean Tatars, “a Return to the Homeland”, CCEs 51-54: CCE 51.13, CCE 52.9-1 & CCE 52.9-2; CCE 53.22-1 & CCE 53.22-2 and this issue CCE 54.17 (see section 3. The Crimean Tatar movement (1968-1980).
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