<<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)
Tag: Khodorovich, Tatyana*
Татьяна Ходорович
Letters and Statements, July 1974 (32.22)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> In this section those statements from the many available to the Chronicle which have not been sufficiently reflected in other sections of this issue are either summarized and quoted in extracts or presented in full. (1) Academician Andrei Sakharov [Note 1] “To the General Secretary of the CPSU Central … Continue reading Letters and Statements, July 1974 (32.22)
Those who Have Left, November 1977 (47.8)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» Kaluga Region. In August Valentin Ivanov (CCE 46) left the USSR. Donetsk Region. In October Victor Borovsky (CCE 46) left the USSR. Kiev. In September the Chudnovsky family (CCE 46) departed from the USSR. They were not allowed to take their mathematical manuscripts. * Moscow. At the beginning of … Continue reading Those who Have Left, November 1977 (47.8)
The Relief Fund for Political Prisoners (46.16)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> This fund was established by A.I. Solzhenitsyn in April 1974 out of the royalties from the Gulag Archipelago. At a press-conference on 2 February 1977, the day before his arrest, Alexander Ginzburg first gave details of his work as the fund’s representative in the USSR (see CCE 44.3). After … Continue reading The Relief Fund for Political Prisoners (46.16)
A List of Political Prisoners, August 1977 (46.23)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> The Russian Relief Fund for Political Prisoners (CCE 44.3) here gives the names of political prisoners and exiles known to it in mid-August 1977 [N.B. These 275 names exclude those in psychiatric hospitals, and almost all religious prisoners. For more details on the men and women listed here see … Continue reading A List of Political Prisoners, August 1977 (46.23)
Underground News in the USSR (2017)
<<Journalism is not a Crime — Freedom of Speech in Iran>> Since this website was launched late in 2015 it has been moving and, at times, remarkable to see how universal is the curiosity about the Chronicle, its history and its background. Following up a lead from the Wikipedia page about the Chronicle or, perhaps, … Continue reading Underground News in the USSR (2017)
Tatyana Khodorovich, “No Thought Trials in the USSR”, May 1976 (40.1)
<< No 40 : 20 May 1976 >> Statement by Tatiana Khodorovich At trials in Odessa, Moscow, Omsk and Vilnius, people have again been prosecuted and found guilty of thoughts they have expressed – and even thoughts they have not expressed. Sentences have been passed as follows: Vyacheslav Igrunov – sent to an ordinary psychiatric … Continue reading Tatyana Khodorovich, “No Thought Trials in the USSR”, May 1976 (40.1)
Extra-judicial Persecution, March 1972 (24.10)
<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> MOSCOW [1] Alexander Galich, previously expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers (CCE 23) has also been expelled from the Literary Fund [Litfond] and the Union of Soviet Cinematographers. [38] [2] At the end of January 1972 the writer Vladimir Maximov was summoned by the secretary of the Moscow … Continue reading Extra-judicial Persecution, March 1972 (24.10)