«No 8 : 30 June 1969» On 20 May 1969 a letter was sent to the United Nations [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 … Continue reading Appeal to UN, May ’69 (8.10)
Category: Protests
News in Brief, Dec ’72 (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, Dec ’72 (28.10)