«No 8 : 30 June 1969» On 20 May 1969 a letter was sent to the UN Commission on Human Rights [1] with a request to look into the violation in the Soviet Union of one of the basic human rights, the right to hold independent convictions and to propagate them by any legal means. … Continue reading Appeal to the United Nations, May 1969 (8.10)
Category: Protests
News in brief, December 1972 (28.10)
<<No 28 : 31 December 1972>> TEN ITEMS [1] Victor Fainberg, who is confined in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital, ended his hunger strike (CCE 27.6) on 15 October. Fainberg 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 … Continue reading News in brief, December 1972 (28.10)