<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> According to Information Bulletin No. 4 of the Free Inter-trade Association of Working People (FIAWP), which came out in May-June, following a ‘talk’ at the KGB (CCE 51, ‘FIAWP’) under threat of imprisonment. Ivanchenko, who has two dependent sons born in 1975 and 1978 and a wife, who is … Continue reading Miscellaneous Reports, Aug 1979 (53.29)
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Звиад К. Гамсахурдия (1939-1993)
Letters to the “Chronicle”, Dec 1976 (43.17-2)
<< No. 43 : 31 December 1976 >> Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights in Georgia and a member of Amnesty International (August 1976): ‘In 1975 the New York publishing house Khronika Press put out the documentary booklet On Torture in Georgia, which I wrote and compiled. The reason I did … Continue reading Letters to the “Chronicle”, Dec 1976 (43.17-2)
Samizdat Update, Oct 1976 (42.12)
<<No 42 : 8 October 1976>> PERIODICALS Aušra [Dawn], No. 3 (June 1976). The first two issues of this Lithuanian journal were briefly summarized in CCEs 39 and 40. The third issue includes eight articles: 1. Kestutis Daugirdas: ‘How Lithuania lost its independence’ (28 pp.) A description of the events of 1939-40. After the secret … Continue reading Samizdat Update, Oct 1976 (42.12)
Events in Georgia, Oct 1976 (42.8)
<<No 42 : 8 October 1976>> On 30 June 1976 the doctor L. Meladze was sending a telegram from Nikolai Samkharadze, a doctor, to L. I. Brezhnev, from the Central Telegraph Office in Moscow. In the telegram Samkharadze asks, not for the first time, that the decision to deprive his brother Beglar of his pension … Continue reading Events in Georgia, Oct 1976 (42.8)
Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, Aug 1976 (41.5)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> YAKUTIA. On 22 June 1976 Pavel Bashkirov, an official of the Museum of Fine Arts in Yakutsk, was arrested in Nyurbachan. In December 1975 his flat had been searched without a warrant and he had later been interrogated, without a record being made (see CCEs 38, 39). On 11 … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, Aug 1976 (41.5)
Events in Georgia, 1974-1975 (38.16)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> The Georgian SSR Procurator’s Office has started proceedings against Yu. Dzhangiani and L. A. Frolov. Former officials at Remand Prison No 1 in Tbilisi, they were in charge of torturing detainees (CCE 36.6-2). The number of the case is 10669. The case is being conducted by special investigator Khabuliani. … Continue reading Events in Georgia, 1974-1975 (38.16)
Letters and Statements, Sept 1975 (37.14)
<<No 37 : 30 September 1975>> Vyacheslav Chornovil: Declaration to the Military Procurator of the Trans-Carpathian Military District (23 July 1973). In his long declaration (19 pages) Chornovil gives details of the way in which his case was investigated in 1972-1973. The basic method used to influence him while he was under investigation was false … Continue reading Letters and Statements, Sept 1975 (37.14)
Extra-Judicial Persecution, Sept 1975 (37.9)
<<No 37 : 30 September 1975>> In 1972 new ‘Directives on the Awarding of Degrees and Titles to Academics’ were issued, which gave the Higher Degrees Commission (VAK) the right to deprive academics of degrees and titles ‘for anti-Soviet activities’. In 1973, on the basis of these Directives, VAK deprived the political prisoners Alexander Bolonkin … Continue reading Extra-Judicial Persecution, Sept 1975 (37.9)