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Category: 17. trials

The Trial of Josif Begun, June 1978 (50.8-5)

30 March 20215 May 2025

<<No. 50 : November 1978>> Cand.Sc. (Technical Sciences) Josif Ziselevich BEGUN (b. 1933) has been a refusenik since 1971. He is an activist of the Jewish emigration movement [1]. In 1977 Begun was sentenced to two years’ exile under Article 209, pt. 1 (RSFSR Criminal Code: “leading a parasitic way of life for a prolonged … Continue reading The Trial of Josif Begun, June 1978 (50.8-5)

The Trial of Vladimir Slepak, June 1978 (50.8-3)

30 March 202128 January 2025

<<No. 50 : November 1978>> Vladimir Semyonovich SLEPAK (b. 1927) has been a refusenik since April 1970. He has been actively involved in the Jewish emigration movement and is a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. * On 1 June Slepak was arrested in his flat and taken to the police station (CCE 50.8-1 [7]). … Continue reading The Trial of Vladimir Slepak, June 1978 (50.8-3)

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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948 UN General Assembly)

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