<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> On 23 August, in Sovetsk, a session of the Kaliningrad Regional Court presided over by I. I. Kapturov started examining the case of Vadim Konovalikhin (CCE 49.15), charged under Article 190-1 of the Russian Criminal Code. The state prosecutor was Deputy Regional Procurator V. P. Sizov; there was a … Continue reading The Trial of Konovalikhin, August 1978 (51.5)
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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)
Moscow Helsinki Group Documents 175-190: July-Dec 1981 (63.24)
<<Moscow Helsinki Group documents, 1976-1982>> No. 175 (31 July 1981) “The trial of Irina Grivnina” (see this issue, CCE 63.1) No. 176 (29 July 1981) “The trial of Felix Serebrov, the last member of the Working Commission” (CCE 63.1) No. 177 (9 August 1981) The trial of Mikhail Zotov. No. 178 () The trial of … Continue reading Moscow Helsinki Group Documents 175-190: July-Dec 1981 (63.24)
Letters and Statements, May 1978 (49.19)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> 1. 110 signatures: “To all the citizens of our country, to all honest people abroad” (March 1978) A protest against the deprivation of Soviet citizenship of P. G. Grigorenko (CCE 48.1), ending with the appeal: We appeal to all our compatriots, to all rational and honest people of the world, … Continue reading Letters and Statements, May 1978 (49.19)
The Trial of Ginzburg, 10-13 July 1978 (50.3)
<<No. 50 : November 1978>> From 10 to 13 July the Kaluga Regional Court heard the case of Alexander Ginzburg, charged under Article 70 part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code. The composition of the court was: Presiding Judge A. I. Sidorkov and People’s Assessors S. M. Brandt and N. P. Parshina; the prosecutor was … Continue reading The Trial of Ginzburg, 10-13 July 1978 (50.3)
Events in Lithuania (48.15)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> The Trial of Jaskunas On 26-28 November 1977, the Lithuanian SSR Supreme Court heard in assizes session the case against Henrikas Jaskunas, arrested in December 1976. (CCE 44; there it says how at his arrest several copies of a document entitled ‘Manifesto of the Union of Organizations of Independent Peoples’ … Continue reading Events in Lithuania (48.15)
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)
Moral resistance, then & now (Tuesday 14 May 2019)
Veteran human rights campaigner Lena SANNIKOVA will speak at Pushkin House, London, on Tuesday, 14 May, at 7 pm about political prisoners in Putin's Russia and the Soviet Union and the many other opponents and victims of both regimes Elena Sannikova at the Sakharov Centre (May 2008) ♦ Over the past ten years, the level … Continue reading Moral resistance, then & now (Tuesday 14 May 2019)
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