<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> In 1944 300,000 Turks, or Meskhetians, were forcibly deported from Meskhetia (southern Georgia). Up to the present they are forbidden not only to return to their homeland, but also to register their names in their passports as either Turks or Georgians: they are registered as, for example, Azerbaijanis. There … Continue reading The Meskhetian Struggle, Aug 1976 (41.11)
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Мераб Костава
In Exile, April-July 1980 (57.20)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> After seven years imprisonment Zoryan POPADYUK arrived from the Perm camps to serve his five-year exile sentence in the Far Eastern Magadan Region; Popadyuk was arrested on 28 March 1973. He suffers from tuberculosis, which he contracted in Vladimir Prison. In April 1980, after three years imprisonment, Merab KOSTAVA … Continue reading In Exile, April-July 1980 (57.20)
Arrest of Gamsakhurdia & Kostava, April 1978 (45.9)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> On 23 March, the Tbilisi newspaper Dawn of the East printed an anonymous article, “Who benefits from this?” On 24 March, the article was republished in Georgian in the newspaper Komunisti. The same day Zviad Gamsakhurdia was expelled from the Writers’ Union. On 25 March Zviad Gamsakhurdia issued a … Continue reading Arrest of Gamsakhurdia & Kostava, April 1978 (45.9)
Repressing Helsinki Groups: Georgia, 1977-1978 (48.4)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> The Case of Gamsakhurdia, Kostava and Rtskhiladze. On 25 January 1978, Victor RTSKHILADZE was re-arrested. He had been arrested in April 1977 together with Zviad GAMSAKHURDIA and Merab KOSTAVA but was released four days later after signing an undertaking not to leave Tbilisi (CCE 45.9). Gamsakhurdia and Kostova (1970s) … Continue reading Repressing Helsinki Groups: Georgia, 1977-1978 (48.4)
No 63 : 31 December 1981
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES A few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE No 63, see below) are given to the right of the items in this Contents page. * 1. Persecution of Working Commission on Psychiatric Abuse Trial of … Continue reading No 63 : 31 December 1981
Gamsakhurdia & Kostava on trial, May 1978 (50.2)
<<No 50 : November 1978>> From 15 to 19 May the Tbilisi City Court heard the case of Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Merab Kostava. The two men were charged with “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” (Article 71 of the Georgian Criminal Code (= Article 70, RSFSR Code). The court was presided over by A. V. Kobakhidze, Deputy … Continue reading Gamsakhurdia & Kostava on trial, May 1978 (50.2)
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