<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> Terms of an Amnesty for Prisoners in Soviet corrective-labour institutions [note 1]. *** Not for publication Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (27 June 1980) 1. The following, who are serving sentences of up to and including five years, shall be released from places of imprisonment: … Continue reading An Official Document, June 1980 (57.26)
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Letters and Statements (51.20)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> 115 signatures: “To the International Committee of the Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies” “For a number of years, the International Red Cross has not responded in any way to reports about bad conditions in places of imprisonment, and to the abuse of psychiatry in the … Continue reading Letters and Statements (51.20)
Samizdat Update 3, 1978 (51.21)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> (1) Andrei Sakharov: “The Human Rights Movement in the USSR and Eastern Europe: Aims, Significance, Difficulties” (8 November 1978, 12 pp.) “The word ‘movement’ in the title of this article is not intended to bring to mind any sort of organization, or association, or, still less, party. It simply … Continue reading Samizdat Update 3, 1978 (51.21)
Soviet Dissent & “Index on Censorship”
A LETTER FROM MOSCOW (8 August 1968) The original impetus for the creation of the Index on Censorship magazine came from an Open Letter addressed "To World Public Opinion" by two Soviet dissenters, Pavel LITVINOV and Larisa BOGORAZ. Larisa Bogoraz and Pavel Litvinov, Moscow Describing "the atmosphere of illegality" surrounding the January 1968 trial of … Continue reading Soviet Dissent & “Index on Censorship”