<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> At the end of May Vasyl Stus (CCEs 44-48) received an officially registered telegram saying that his father (aged 87) was near death. To his request for permission to travel to his father (in Donetsk) Stus was given a refusal. A. D. Sakharov and the exiles V. Chornovil, S. … Continue reading In exile, 1978 (51.10)
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Pre-trial Investigations (26.4)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> In May 1972, Leonid Plyushch (see CCE 24.3) was sent to Moscow for a psychiatric examination. A number of facts oblige one to suppose that the diagnosis of the commission of experts has been determined in advance. One such fact was adduced in a statement by the Action Group … Continue reading Pre-trial Investigations (26.4)
Repression in Ukraine, 1972 (27.1)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> From June to September 1972 trials took place of participants in the national and democratic movement in Ukraine. The prosecution's case was based chiefly on samizdat and occasionally on verbal utterances. The article of indictment was Article 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code (equivalent to Article 70 of the … Continue reading Repression in Ukraine, 1972 (27.1)
In Exile, August 1977 to February 1978 (48.11)
At the beginning of December 1977 MVD Colonel Krivonogov arrived in the Vershino-Shakhtama settlement (Shelopugino district, Chita Region) where Malva Landa (CCE 46.1) was in exile. Not finding Landa, he left. The following morning the district policeman told her that Colonel Krivonogov wanted to talk to her about an amnesty. On this same visit Colonel … Continue reading In Exile, August 1977 to February 1978 (48.11)
The death of Vasyl Stus (1938-1985)
Vesti iz SSSR, 1985 (17-1, 15 September) On 4 September 1985, political prisoner Vasyl STUS died in special-regime camp Perm 389/36-1. Vasyl Stus (b. 8 January 1938) was an outstanding Ukrainian poet and journalist. First arrested in January 1972 for publishing a poetry collection abroad and writing a number of articles for samizdat, he was … Continue reading The death of Vasyl Stus (1938-1985)
The Trial of Vasyl Stus, 29 Sept.-2 Oct. 1980 (58.17)
«No 58 : November 1980» In summer 1980 searches were carried out at the homes of exiles Yevgeny Sverstyuk (CCE 52, 55, 56) and Alexander Sergiyenko (CCE 52, 54, 55) in connection with the case of Stus (CCE 57). Letters were confiscated. On 26 June Stus's investigator, KGB Major A. V. Selyuk, interrogated the wife … Continue reading The Trial of Vasyl Stus, 29 Sept.-2 Oct. 1980 (58.17)
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)
No 57 : 3 August 1980
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Some of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE No 57, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page. (1) The trial of Vladimir Poresh (Leningrad) [8] (2) PERSECUTION OF THE MOSCOW HELSINKI … Continue reading No 57 : 3 August 1980
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