«No 47 : 30 November 1977» The third and fourth issues of the bulletin Concerning the Draft Constitution of the USSR (for issues 1 and 2 see CCE 46.18), include the letter by Mark Popovsky mentioned in CCE 46, another letter by Leonard Ternovsky, letters from Orion Kvachevsky, Larisa Bogoraz, Yury Grimm, Yury Sergeyev, Yevgeny … Continue reading Discussion of the Draft [1977] Constitution, pt 2 (47.16)
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Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> Pardons. On 15 June 1970, a group of people who were planning to hijack an aeroplane and escape abroad in it were arrested in Leningrad. In December of the same year, they were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, and on two of them, Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov, … Continue reading Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
The Trial of Georgy Vins, 27-31 January 1975 (35.3)
KIEV The court building was guarded by a detachment of police. Entrance was by special pass only. A group of religious believers were pushed back to the other side of the street. Georgy Vins, 1928-1998 The defendant was Georgy Petrovich VINS (b. 1928), Secretary of the Council of Churches of Evangelical Christians and Baptists (CCECB). … Continue reading The Trial of Georgy Vins, 27-31 January 1975 (35.3)
No 35 : 31 March 1975
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES A few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. To read the other items use page numbers for the pdf version (see below) given to the right of each report in this Contents page. (1) The Situation of Leonid Plyushch [58] (2) … Continue reading No 35 : 31 March 1975
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)
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