"Vesti iz SSSR", 1984 (19/20-1, 31 October). Valery MARCHENKO died in Leningrad on 7 October 1984. On 13 September he was flown from the Perm-35 camp for political prisoners to the penal system's F.J Haass Hospital at 1 Khokhryakov Street in Leningrad. He was already in a critical condition: his kidneys had ceased to function … Continue reading The Death of Valery Marchenko (1947-1984)
Action Group for Defence of Human Rights in USSR
The oldest human rights group in the Soviet Union, with members from Moscow, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, the Action Group began its activities in 1969 by appealing, over the head of the Soviet government, to the UN Human Rights Commission. Its formal existence ended with the arrest and imprisonment in 1979 of Tatyana Velikanova. * To … Continue reading Action Group for Defence of Human Rights in USSR
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