Veteran human rights campaigner Lena SANNIKOVA will speak at Pushkin House, London, on Tuesday, 14 May at 7 pm about political prisoners in Putin's Russia and the Soviet Union and the many other opponents and victims of both regimes ♦ Over the past ten years, the level of repression has been rising in Russia. Today … Continue reading Moral resistance, then & now (14 May 2019)
Tag: Article 70*
Political Prisoners, 1 February 1987 (KGB report)
KGB report to Gorbachev (Bukovsky Archives online). The numbers then serving a sentence under Articles 70, 190-1 and 142 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. One third held in psychiatric institutions; encouraging applications for a pardon from such prisoners; terms of release terms eased [Russian 1 Feb 87, 183-Ch] (9 pp) Excerpts. ================================== [page one of … Continue reading Political Prisoners, 1 February 1987 (KGB report)
The trial of Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova, 8-12 January 1968 (1.1)
<< No 1 : 30 April 1968 >> On 10 December 1968 it will be twenty years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Human Rights. "Human Rights Year" began all over the world on 10 December 1967. On 11 December 1967 the trial of Yury GALANSKOV, Alexander GINZBURG, Alexei DOBROVOLSKY and … Continue reading The trial of Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova, 8-12 January 1968 (1.1)
The Trial of Vladimir Osipov, 24-26 September 1975 (37.2)
<<No 37 : 30 September 1975>> From 24 to 26 September the Vladimir Region Court dealt with the case of Vladimir Osipov (CCE 34.7, Case 38 [pdf, p. 23]), charged under Article 70, section 2, of the RSFSR Criminal Code. * Vladimir Nikolayevich Osipov was born in 1938. From 1961 to 1968 he spent seven … Continue reading The Trial of Vladimir Osipov, 24-26 September 1975 (37.2)
The Release of Bukovsky, 18 December 1976 (43.1)
<< No 43 : 31 December 1976 >> In September (?) of this year, the Danish Committee for the Sakharov Hearings proposed to the Soviet and Chilean authorities that they should simultaneously release Vladimir Bukovsky and Luis Corvalan from imprisonment. * V. Bukovsky was arrested in March 1971 and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and … Continue reading The Release of Bukovsky, 18 December 1976 (43.1)
The detention of Valentin Prussakov, 1967-1968 (1.7)
<< No 1 : 30 April 1968 >> In February 1967 Valentin Prussakov, a student of the Institute of Railway Engineers, was arrested in Moscow. During a search it was mainly his verses which were confiscated [1]. He was charged under Article 70 of the RSRSR Criminal Code. In February 1968 a trial was fixed … Continue reading The detention of Valentin Prussakov, 1967-1968 (1.7)
The Leningrad trial of 17-26 December 1968 (5.2)
<<No 5 : 31 December 1968>> Issues 3 and 4 of the Chronicle gave news about the arrest of several people [CCE 3.4] in Leningrad, and about the circumstances of their arrest [CCE 4.5]. *** In October two of the accused in this case, Nikolai Danilov and Yevgeny Shashenkov, were declared of unsound mind and … Continue reading The Leningrad trial of 17-26 December 1968 (5.2)
