<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> On 9 July 1973 the HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE in Moscow published an official statement which is quoted here in full: “We have learned that the International Congress of Psychotherapists in Oslo ruled against passing any resolution condemning the use of psychiatric hospitalization as a means of political repression in … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, December 1973 (30.9)
Category: In the psychiatric hospitals
Biographies: A.A. Tarasov (29.10)
<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> The Chronicle opens a new section, "Biographies", with a biography of A. A. Tarasov. * Adrian Alexandrovich TARASOV was born in 1945 [note 1]. He lost his father in early childhood. While attending a special school for French studies he began to correspond with pen-pals in France. His French … Continue reading Biographies: A.A. Tarasov (29.10)
Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
On 26 July 1972, the paper Evening Tbilisi [Vecherny Tbilisi] published an interview with the Rector of the Pushkin Pedagogical institute in Tbilisi, Natela Vasadze. it included, amongst other things, the following exchange: Correspondent -- At a recent Plenum of the City Council one of your teachers was criticised for performing religious ceremonies in a … Continue reading Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
Corrections and Additions, July 1974 (32.23)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> From the information given in CCE 15.3 about the case of Revolt Pimenov it might have been thought that the doctor who was treating him, Dr Goland, took part in the psychiatric commission [1949] which at one time ruled him to be ‘schizophrenic’. This impression is not correct: according … Continue reading Corrections and Additions, July 1974 (32.23)
In the Psychiatric Hospitals, October 1972 (27.6)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> In accordance with instructions from Moscow, political prisoners in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital [SPH] are being transferred to other establishments of the same type in towns where they have no relatives, thus restricting the opportunities for meetings and handing in parcels. * Those transferred to the Dnepropetrovsk SPH … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, October 1972 (27.6)
Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1978 (51.8)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Moscow. On 25 August 1978, Moscow KGB officials, headed by a senior investigator of the Investigations Department, Captain V. S. Semenyuk, conducted a search of the home of Mark Aronovich MOROZOV (CCE 47.15). The decision to conduct a search was authorized by a military procurator. In the decision it … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1978 (51.8)
Pre-trial Investigations (26.4)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> In May 1972, Leonid Plyushch (see CCE 24.3) was sent to Moscow for a psychiatric examination. A number of facts oblige one to suppose that the diagnosis of the commission of experts has been determined in advance. One such fact was adduced in a statement by the Action Group … Continue reading Pre-trial Investigations (26.4)
Materials from the Newspapers (26.12)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> On 8 February, the paper Penza Pravda [Volga District], under the heading “Legal Feature , published an article “The Fall” (by O. Telbukh) concerning the trial of A. S. Lakalov, who was accused of “the dissemination of deliberate fabrications defaming the Soviet system” [note] (evidently Article 190-1 of the … Continue reading Materials from the Newspapers (26.12)
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