Monstrous sentences against CRIMEAN TATAR journalists & activists <<Other texts and documents>> In the last decades of the Soviet regime, dissidents received 7-10 year sentences for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda". Modern Russia, persecuting Ukrainian citizens on illegally occupied territory for their religious beliefs and political views, is doubling such sentences. Seven Crimean Tatar civic journalists … Continue reading Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea (2020)
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Metro Explosion Trial, Mar ’79 (52.1)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> On 8 January 1977 an explosion occurred in a Moscow underground train. The authorities immediately tried (CCE 44.16) to link this act of terrorism with dissident activity. * On 31 January 1979 the following report was published: In the USSR Supreme Court "The Judicial Board for Criminal Cases of … Continue reading Metro Explosion Trial, Mar ’79 (52.1)