<< No. 43 : 31 December 1976 >> [1] TORTURE Zviad Gamsakhurdia Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights in Georgia, a member of Amnesty International (August 1976): ‘In 1975 the New York publishing house Khronika Press put out the documentary booklet On Torture in Georgia, which I wrote and compiled. The reason I … Continue reading Letters to the “Chronicle”, Dec ’76 (43.17-2)
Category: 10. Meskhetian movement
Meskhetian Struggle, Aug ’76 (41.11)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> In 1944 300,000 Turks, or Meskhetians, were forcibly deported from Meskhetia (southern Georgia). Up to the present they are forbidden not only to return to their homeland, but also to register their names in their passports as either Turks or Georgians: they are registered as, for example, Azerbaijanis. There … Continue reading Meskhetian Struggle, Aug ’76 (41.11)