<< No. 43 : 31 December 1976 >> The Release of Mart Niklus, 3 December 1976 The report in CCE 42 on the arrest of Mart Niklus in Tartu contained a few inaccuracies. A corrected and expanded report is given below. On 30 September 1976 police investigator Vavrenyuk turned up at the school where Mart … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, Dec 1976 (43.7)
Tag: Borisov V.Ye. (Leningrad)*
Владимир Е. Борисов
Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, Oct 1976 (42.3)
<<No 42 : 8 October 1976>> Slogans in Leningrad On 6 April, the day when Tverdokhlebov’s trial should have taken place but did not (CCE 40), three trams came out of the tram depot bearing the following inscriptions on their sides: ‘Freedom for political prisoners!', ‘Freedom for Andrei Tverdokhlebov! ‘ On 7 April similar slogans … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, Oct 1976 (42.3)
Miscellaneous Reports, Aug 1977 (46.15)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> UKRAINE. On 28 June 1977 the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR, after hearing the appeal in the case of Pyotr Ruban (CCE 45), left the sentence unchanged. * UZBEKISTAN. At the end of June 1977, the father of Amner Zavurov (CCE 44) was asked to write a plea … Continue reading Miscellaneous Reports, Aug 1977 (46.15)
The Release of V. Borisov, Jan-March 1977 (44.20)
<<No 44 : 16 March 1977>> Chronicle 43.7 reported the ‘psychiatric arrest’ of Vladimir Borisov, which took place on 25 December 1976. On 5 January 1977 a medical commission led by Professor D.S. Ozeretskovsky, head of the psychiatry department at the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute, came to the conclusion, after examining Borisov, that in his … Continue reading The Release of V. Borisov, Jan-March 1977 (44.20)
Deportation of Vladimir Borisov, 1980 (57.4)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> In Leningrad, at the end of March 1980, Vladimir BORISOV was forcibly interned in a psychiatric hospital. In mid-April he was sent for an expert examination (CCE 56). On 3 May Borisov was discharged from hospital: the psychiatrists pronounced him no longer a ‘psychiatric invalid’. On 3 June 1980, … Continue reading Deportation of Vladimir Borisov, 1980 (57.4)
In the Psychiatric Hospitals, December 1973 (30.9)
<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> On 9 July 1973 the HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE in Moscow published an official statement which is quoted here in full: “We have learned that the International Congress of Psychotherapists in Oslo ruled against passing any resolution condemning the use of psychiatric hospitalization as a means of political repression in … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, December 1973 (30.9)
In the Psychiatric Hospitals, October 1972 (27.6)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> In accordance with instructions from Moscow, political prisoners in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital [SPH] are being transferred to other establishments of the same type in towns where they have no relatives, thus restricting the opportunities for meetings and handing in parcels. * Those transferred to the Dnepropetrovsk SPH … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, October 1972 (27.6)
Fainberg & Borisov’s Hunger Strike, March 1972 (24.4)
<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> In the Leningrad psychiatric prison-hospital the plight of Victor FAINBERG and Vladimir BORISOV, who declared a second hunger strike on 26 December 1971 (CCE 23.4), has sharply deteriorated. On 3 January 1972, Fainberg began to be given injections of aminazin [similar to chlorpromazine]. He attempted to commit suicide, whereupon … Continue reading Fainberg & Borisov’s Hunger Strike, March 1972 (24.4)
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