<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> 1. Ivan Dzyuba, 11-16 March 1973 From 11 to 16 March the Kiev Regional Court heard the case of the critic and literary historian Ivan Mikhailovich Dzyuba,[note 1] indicted under Article 62 of the Ukrainian criminal code (Article 70 of the RSFSR code). Representatives of the institutions where Dzyuba … Continue reading Trials in Ukraine, January-April 1973 (29.5)
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Ivan Svitlychny
In Prisons and Camps, March 1978 (48.10)
A Meeting Before Execution Captain (3rd class) V.M. Sablin, under whose command the Baltic Fleet vessel “Headlong” [Stremitelny] tried to defect to Sweden (CCE 43), was sentenced to be shot. On the eve of his execution, he was granted a 20-minute meeting with his father, a retired colonel. The meeting took place in the presence … Continue reading In Prisons and Camps, March 1978 (48.10)
In the Prisons and Camps, May 1976 (40.9)
VLADIMIR PRISON The right to correspond. Since the end of 1975 Zavyalkin, the governor of Vladimir Prison, has taken an active part in supervising the prisoners’ correspondence. From December 1975 stereo-postcards which arrived in letters were not given out. From February 1976 there was an increase in the number of incoming and outgoing letters being … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps, May 1976 (40.9)
In Other Prisons and Camps, May-October 1977 (47.9)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» The Perm Camps On 4 October, the day the Belgrade Conference opened, political prisoners in Camps 35 and 36 held a hunger-strike. It is known that the hunger-strike in Camp 36 lasted a week, about 15 people taking part in it. 30 October, “Political Prisoners’ Day”, was marked by … Continue reading In Other Prisons and Camps, May-October 1977 (47.9)
Political Prisoner’s Day, 30 October 1974 (33.1)
<< No 33 : 10 December 1974 >> According to advance information received from the labour camps of Mordovia and Perm, a decision was taken there to designate 30 October 1974[1] as the "Day of the Political Prisoner in the USSR". On that day the prisoners intended to declare hunger strikes, which were to last … Continue reading Political Prisoner’s Day, 30 October 1974 (33.1)
News in brief, December 1968 (5.4)
<<No 5 : 31 December 1968>> [1] In the Crimea there are periodic police raids on Tatars who have returned home. On 15 July 1968, eleven Crimean Tatar families were brutally manhandled at the 'Bolshevik' state farm in the Krasnogvardeisky (Red Guard) district. Since the publication of the decree of 5 September 1967, only eighteen … Continue reading News in brief, December 1968 (5.4)
