<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> IN THE CRIMEA In the spring of 1978, there were about 700 Crimean Tatar families in the Crimea, living without registration in houses they had bought (CCE 49), Almost all of them had been through the civil courts, which had declared the arrangement of house sales and purchases to … Continue reading The Persecution of Crimean Tatars, Dec. 1978 (51.13)
Category: self-immolation
Extra-judicial persecution, July 1974 (32.18)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> Volkov and Golubev, students at the Latvian State University (physics and maths faculty) listened to and recorded on tape some excerpts from Solzhenitsyn’s book Gulag Archipelago, broadcast by a foreign radio station. They then reproduced the recording for their colleagues. They have been expelled from the Komsomol and the … Continue reading Extra-judicial persecution, July 1974 (32.18)
Events in Lithuania (26.11)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> The self-immolation of Romas Kalanta and others On 14 May, in one of the squares of Kaunas, Romas Kalanta (b. 1953), who had finished secondary education and was the son of a college lecturer, died by self-immolation, under the banner ‘'Freedom for Lithuania”. Three of his friends surrounded the … Continue reading Events in Lithuania (26.11)
Miscellaneous Reports, pt 1 (51.19)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Political Prisoner’s Day 30 October was declared “Political Prisoner Day” by the Moscow Helsinki Group (Document No. 66 [see CCE 51.20]): “We emphasize especially: the majority of political prisoners in the USSR are prisoners of conscience, who have not in fact committed any crimes... The fulfilment of the international … Continue reading Miscellaneous Reports, pt 1 (51.19)
Events in Lithuania, May-October 1972 (27.3)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> The death of Romas Kalanta Some details have become known about the tragic suicide of Romas Kalanta and the events that followed it in Kaunas (see CCE 26.11). Kalanta died by self-immolation at about 1 pm [on 14 May 1972], in a city garden next to the Kaunas Musical … Continue reading Events in Lithuania, May-October 1972 (27.3)
Self-immolation: A protest of despair (1968-2019)
<<Other texts and documents>> On 10 SEPTEMBER 2019, 79-year-old activist Albert Razin set fire to himself in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurt Republic (Volga Federal District) in protest against the policy of the national government [note 1] concerning languages and linguistic minorities within Russia. No fire extinguisher was near to hand and he died later … Continue reading Self-immolation: A protest of despair (1968-2019)
No 26 : 5 July 1972
THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES The reports in this issue may also be found in the pdf version, CCE 25 & 26 (AI pdf). Page numbers are given next to the items in this Contents page, 1. The Arrest of Pyotr Yakir [32] 2. Political trials [33] 3. Searches, interrogations, arrests … Continue reading No 26 : 5 July 1972
Events in Lithuania: May-December 1973 (30.11)
<< No 30 : 31 December 1973 >> On 14 May 1973, the first anniversary of Romas Kalanta’s self-immolation (see CCE 26.11 and CCE 27.3), extra detachments of police armed with rubber truncheons and equipped with portable two-way radios patrolled Kaunas. Pupils and officials of various institutions were also delegated to help maintain order. There … Continue reading Events in Lithuania: May-December 1973 (30.11)
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