ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Only some of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE 32 & 33, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page *** (1) The Deportation of Solzhenitsyn [13 February 1974] (2) The Trial … Continue reading No. 32 : 17 July 1974
Category: News in brief
No 33 : 10 December 1974
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Few of the reports in this issue have yet been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE 32 & 33, see below) are given to the right of the items in this Contents page *** (1) Political Prisoner's Day in the USSR [62] … Continue reading No 33 : 10 December 1974
No 34 : 31 December 1974
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Only two of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE 34-36, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page (1) The Arrest of Sergei Kovalyov [6] (2) The Trial of Mikhail Kheifets … Continue reading No 34 : 31 December 1974
No 35 : 31 March 1975
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE Nos 34-36, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page *** (1) The Situation of Leonid Plyushch [58] (2) The Case of Anatoly … Continue reading No 35 : 31 March 1975
News in brief, June 1969 (8.14)
«No 8 : 30 June 1969» [1] In mid-May 1969, workers at the Kiev Hydroelectric Station in the village of Beryozka met to discuss the housing problem: many of them are even now still living in prefabricated huts and railway coaches despite the authorities' promises to provide housing. The workers declared that they no longer … Continue reading News in brief, June 1969 (8.14)
News in brief, December 1972 (28.7)
<<No 28 : 31 December 1972>> [1] On 15 October Victor Fainberg, who is confined in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital, ended his hunger strike [CCE 27] Fainberg had declared a hunger strike on 28 September, protesting against the transfer of "politicals" from his hospital on Arsenalnaya Street to the special hospitals in Oryol and … Continue reading News in brief, December 1972 (28.7)
News in brief, April 1969 (7.13)
«Issue 7 : 30 April 1969» [1] On 15 April in Riga a student, Ilya Rips, tried to immolate himself. Under the Freedom Obelisk, set up when Latvia was independent, he unfurled a banner with the words FREEDOM FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA. A hostile crowd gathered around him. The youth threw off his overcoat, under which was … Continue reading News in brief, April 1969 (7.13)
News in brief, February 1969 (6.9)
«No 6 : 28 February 1969» [1] In Kiev Nazarenko and two other employees of the hydro-electric station, Kondryukov and Karpenko, were recently tried on a charge of engaging in anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation. The defendants distributed through the post leaflets protesting against the Russification of the Ukraine and describing the Shevchenko celebrations in Kiev. … Continue reading News in brief, February 1969 (6.9)
News in brief, May to October 1968 (4.7)
<<No 4 : 31 October 1968>> [1] In May and June 1968 the Supreme Court of the RSFSR considered the appeals of the Leningrad members of the All-Russian Social-Christian Union (CCE 1.6). The sentences on all those convicted were confirmed. Ogurtsov, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, and Sado, sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment, will, according … Continue reading News in brief, May to October 1968 (4.7)
Brief reports, June 1968 (2.7)
No 2, 30 June 1968 [1] A lathe tore fingers from the hand of Vadim Gaenko in Camp No 11 in Mordovia. Gaenko from Leningrad is serving four years under Articles 70 and 72 of the RSFSR Criminal Code for taking part in an illegal Marxist circle and issuing The Bell periodical [see below, item … Continue reading Brief reports, June 1968 (2.7)
