<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> On 24 December 1971, the anniversary of the sentence in the Leningrad “aeroplane” case (CCE 17.6), 29 prisoners from this and subsequent Jewish trials carried out a three-day protest hunger-strike [1]. The only non-participants in this were Mark Dymshits, Gilel Butman and Mikhail Korenblit, who were at that time … Continue reading “Hijackers” Trial Anniversary, Dec ’71 (23.5)
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Politicals’ Hunger Strikes, Jan ’72 (23.3)
<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> * Political Prisoners' Hunger Strikes DUBROVLAG (see Map 3) Potma, Mordovskaya ASSR On 1 May 1971 Yury P. Fyodorov, who is serving a fifteen-year term in connection with the Leningrad “aeroplane” case (CCE 17.6-1), declared a week-long hunger-strike in protest against his sentence and against the lack of any … Continue reading Politicals’ Hunger Strikes, Jan ’72 (23.3)