International Law ("Work in progress" cf. International Agreements) Availability of these fundamental texts in a repressive and pre-Internet era. Bukovsky example of Soviet Constitution at Lefortovo Prison. Alexeyeva assertion that only after 1975 did the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), become readily available to ordinary citizens of the USSR. Consequence, lack … Continue reading International law
Category: Judicial repression
Arrest of Andrei Amalrik, May 1970 (14.1)
<<No 14 : 30 June 1970>> Andrei Alexeyevich AMALRIK was arrested on 21 May 1970 in the village of Akulovo (Moscow Region). At 11 a.m. about twenty agents of the KGB and of the Moscow and Sverdlovsk Procuracies appeared in four cars. Amalrik was shown the charge of circulating "literature containing slanderous fabrications defaming the … Continue reading Arrest of Andrei Amalrik, May 1970 (14.1)
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