<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> This section had been compiled largely from the Information Bulletins of the Working Commission (to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes), Nos. 18, 12 August 1979; 19, 15 October 1979; and 20, 8 December 1979 [note 1]. * Special Psychiatric Hospitals Tashkent SPH Following Nikolai Demyanov’s transfer … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, Nov 1979 (54.15)
& Psychiatric Hospitals (46.13) <<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> In Exile, Aug 1977 (46.12) Vasily Stus (CCE 45) is working in a mine as a scraper. He lives in a hostel. He is feeling very ill. In September he had to spend some time in hospital. In June his wife came to visit him … Continue reading In Exile, Aug 1977 (46.12)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> This section has been compiled largely from the Information Bulletin of the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes: Nos. 9 (9 June 1978), 10 (10 August 1978), 12 (9 October 1978), 13 (20 November 1978) and 14 (5 January 1979) [note 1]. IN SPECIAL … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, Dec 1978 (51.11)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> Chernyakhovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital (Kaliningrad Region, NW Russia) Kubyshkin is a worker from near Moscow, just over 50 years old. Previously he was charged under Article 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code for “conversations”, declared mentally incompetent and sent to the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital. Now he has once … Continue reading In the Psychiatric Hospitals, August 1976 (41.7)
«No 18 : 5 March 1971» The imprisonment of dissenters in psychiatric hospitals continues to be the subject of public concern and protest. 1. In a letter appealing to the psychiatrists of a number of countries, the Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the USSR, stresses once more that this form of … Continue reading In Psychiatric Hospitals: Documents, 1971 (18.1)
«No 15 : 31 August 1970» [1] Pyotr Grigoryevich GRIGORENKO is still being held (CCE 14.2) in the Psychiatric Hospital in Chernyakhovsk [Kaliningrad Region]. On 3 July his wife Z.M. Grigorenko, his son Andrei and his son's fiancée travelled there to visit him. The head of the hospital, Major Belokopytov, refused to allow the visit … Continue reading News in Brief, August 1970 (15.10)
<<No 14 : 30 June 1970>> On 13 May Academicians M.A. Leontovich and A.D. Sakharov, Master of physico-mathematical sciences V.F. Turchin and physicist V.N. Chalidze lodged a "Complaint concerning supervisory oversight" with USSR Procurator-General Rudenko against the decisions of the Tashkent City Court and the Uzbek Supreme Court (CCE 12.2) in the case of P.G. … Continue reading The fate of Pyotr Grigorenko, June 1970 (14.2)
<<No 11 : 31 December 1969>> 11.1 The expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Writers Union [1] Sakhalin - an island off the Far Eastern coast of the Soviet Union, visited by Chekhov in 1890. His impressions of the forced labour camps and exiles' settlements located there are recorded in Sakhalin Island, first published in 1893-4. … Continue reading Commentary No 11 (December 1969)
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