<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> On 21 August in Moscow City Court the trial took place of Ilya Glezer, charged with "‘the manufacture and dissemination of libellous letters and documents designed to undermine the Soviet State system" (see CCE 24.10 [and CCE 25.10, item 18]). The judge was Bogdanov, the Procurator Funtov and the … Continue reading News in Brief, October 1972 (27.12)
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In the prisons and camps (27.5)
Some inmates of Vladimir Prison <<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> There follows a list of some inmates of Vladimir Prison No 2 (address: 600020, Vladimir, [penal] institution OD-I/ST-2), convicted under articles of the Criminal Code relating to "especially dangerous State crimes”. [Surnames in Russian alphabetical order, see CCE 46.23]. * Anatoly Avakov – Article … Continue reading In the prisons and camps (27.5)
News in Brief (25.10)
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> [1] As CCE 24.11 (item 6) reported, in March 16 prisoners in Leningrad Region’s corrective-labour colony 6 (Obukhovo rail station, Leningrad Region) refused to eat and sewed up their mouths in protest at the conditions of their confinement. Following an investigation, the commandant of the colony was … Continue reading News in Brief (25.10)
Political Prisoners in the Mordovian Camps (25.6)
<<No 25 : 20 May 1972>> Dmytro Kuzmich VERKHOLYAK (b. 1928). From 1947 he was in the Ukrainian Insurrectionist Army [UPA]. Arrested in 1955, on 14 February 1956 a court in Ivano-Frankovsk sentenced him to be shot, but this was changed to 25 years of camps [note 1]. In camp he is working as a … Continue reading Political Prisoners in the Mordovian Camps (25.6)
Releases, November 1977 to February 1978 (48.10)
In February 1978 Roman Semenyuk was taken under convoy from Mordovian Camp 19 to Lvov. At the end of his term, he was released and sent to the town of Sokol (Lvov Region). Here he was lodged in a hostel and put under surveillance. Roman Zakharovich SEMENYUK is 50 years old. In 1949 he was … Continue reading Releases, November 1977 to February 1978 (48.10)
More about Karavansky, April 1970 (13.7)
«No 13 : 30 April 1970» Svyatoslav I. Karavansky is a native of Odessa, born in 1920. In 1944 he was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment for taking part in an underground youth organisation during the German and Rumanian occupation (the slogan of the organisation was "Down with the bloody terror of Hitler and Stalin!"). … Continue reading More about Karavansky, April 1970 (13.7)
News in brief, December 1972 (28.7)
<<No 28 : 31 December 1972>> [1] On 15 October Victor Fainberg, who is confined in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital, ended his hunger strike [CCE 27] Fainberg had declared a hunger strike on 28 September, protesting against the transfer of "politicals" from his hospital on Arsenalnaya Street to the special hospitals in Oryol and … Continue reading News in brief, December 1972 (28.7)
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