In the light of the threat of dissolution now facing the Memorial Society (December 2021) it is informative to see what prominent dissidents were demanding early in 1974. Soviet dissenters (1977 photo), two of whom signed the 1974 Appeal. From left to right: Naum Meiman, Sophia Kalistratova, Petro and Zinaida Grigorenko, Mother Velikanova, Father Sergy … Continue reading The Moscow Appeal (February 1974)
Category: Extra-judicial persecution
The Trial of Sergei Kovalyov, 9-12 December 1975 (38.3)
<<31 December 1975, No 38>> The trial in the case of S.A. Kovalyov (CCEs 34-37) took place on 9-12 December in Vilnius, at the Supreme Court of the Lithuanian SSR. [For Kovalyov's arrest in December 1974, see CCE 34.1] The chairman of the court was M. Ignotas, a member of the Supreme Court of the … Continue reading The Trial of Sergei Kovalyov, 9-12 December 1975 (38.3)
The Persecution of Believers, Dec. 1978 (51.15)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Orthodox Christians; Pentecostals; Baptists; Jehovah's Witnesses; Adventists * ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS On 2 July the Deputy Head of the Smolensk KGB ‘chatted’ for an hour and a half with T.N. Shchipkova (CCE 49) about the journal Community [Obshchina] (CCE 49 and “Samizdat Update” in this issue, CCE 51.21), Shchipkova refused … Continue reading The Persecution of Believers, Dec. 1978 (51.15)
The Persecution of Crimean Tatars, Dec. 1978 (51.13)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> IN THE CRIMEA In the spring of 1978, there were about 700 Crimean Tatar families in the Crimea, living without registration in houses they had bought (CCE 49), Almost all of them had been through the civil courts, which had declared the arrangement of house sales and purchases to … Continue reading The Persecution of Crimean Tatars, Dec. 1978 (51.13)
An unpublished decree, December 1972 (30.13)
<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> On 25 December 1972 the presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet passed decree No. 1707 (or 7707 -- accounts vary) on measures to prevent the commission of crimes. One of the preventive measures stipulated by the decree is the giving of a warning [preduprezhedenie] by state security personnel to … Continue reading An unpublished decree, December 1972 (30.13)
In the Prisons and Camps, December 1978 (51.9)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Directive No. 37 New Rules concerning internal order (mentioned in CCE 48.10), were brought into effect on 15 March 1978 by Decree No. 37 of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, issued in December 1977. The Decree carries the stamp of the USSR Procurator-General. Like the former rules, introduced … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps, December 1978 (51.9)
In the Psychiatric Hospitals, December 1978 (51.11)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> This section has been compiled largely from the Information Bulletin of the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes: Nos. 9 (9 June 1978), 10 (10 August 1978), 12 (9 October 1978), 13 (20 November 1978) and 14 (5 January 1979) [note 1]. IN SPECIAL … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, December 1978 (51.11)
“Tamizdat” Update, December 1973 (30.16)
<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> This section summarizes Western editions of works and documents in Russian, tamizdat [note 1], that were not published in the Soviet Union for “ideological” reasons. [1] A Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR No. 3 (June-August 1973). (Same format, headings and price as previous issues.) In addition to … Continue reading “Tamizdat” Update, December 1973 (30.16)
A Chronicle of Current Events 