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CHRONICLE of C NT EVENTS No 6 3 CHRONICLE OF C NT EVENTS No 6 3 Journal of the Human Rights Movement in.the USSR A 41. • f Amnesty International Publications AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL is a worldwide movement which is independent Of any government, political Faction, ideology, economic interest or religious creed. It plays a specific role within the overall spectrum of human rights work. The activities of the organization focus strictly on prisoners: —It seeks the release of men and women detained anywhere for their ronicle of beliefs, colour, sex, ethnic origin, language or religion. provided they have neither used nor advocated violence. These are termed 'prisoners of conseieni.e'. —It advocates lair and early trials for all prisoners and works on vents behalf of such persons detained witlunit charge or without trial. urrent —It Opposes the death penalty and torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatinent or punishment of all ffisoners without reservation. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL acts on the basis of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments. Through practical work for prisoners within its mandate. Amnesty International participates in the wider promotion and protection of human rights in the civil. political, economic, social and cultural spheres. Number 63 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has 2,000 adoption groups and national sections in 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and Latin America and individual inembers in a further 74 countries. Each adoption group works for at least two prisoners of conscience in countries other than its own. These countries arc balanced geographically Qnd politically to ensure impartiality. Infornuition about prisoners and huinan rights violations emanates from Amnesty International's Research Department in London. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC), UNESCO and the Council of Europe, has cooperative relations with the Inter-American Commisson on Human Rights of the Organization of American States and has observer status with the Organization of African Unity (Bureau for the Placement and Education of African Refugees). AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL is financed by subscriptions and donations of its worldwide membership. To safeguard the independence of the organization, all contributions are strictly controlled by guidelines laid down by Al's International Council and income and expenditure arc made public in an annual financial report. Amnesty International Publications 1 Easton Street London WC1X 8DJ 1983 CONTENTS ISSN 0254-6175 Subscription rates - see inside hack cover Russian original 0 Khronika Press 1983, New York List of Illustrations English translation 0Amnesty International, 1983 All rights reserved Preface Published 1983 by Amnesty International Publica- tions Abbreviations Designed and produced by Index on Censorship, London and New York Chronicle No. 63 (31 December 1981) Printed in Great Britain by Billing & Sons, Ltd, Persecution of the Working Commission Ito London Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for ISBN 0 86210 059 3 Political PurposesI AI index: EUR 46/32/83 The Trial of Grivnina 1 Copyright of photographs: requests for permission The Trial of Serebrov 6 to reproduce any of the photographs in this book The Case of the Journal Searches 9 should be directed to Amnesty International The Trial of Yakovlev 9 Publications, 1 Easton Street, London WCIX 8DJ, The Arrest of Ivan Kovalliv 10 England, which will pass such requests on to The Trial of Anatolv Marchenko 24 copyright-holders. The Trial of Roginsky 31 The Trial of Kuvakin 42 Arrests 47 The Arrest of Ovanov-Skuratov 47 The Arrest of Viktor Yatsenko 48 The Arrest of Repin 48 The Arrest of Kozlovsky 49 Searches and interrogations 49 A Search at the Home of Kalistratova 49 The Case of Bolonkin 50 A Search at the Home of Khodorovich 54 The Interrogation of A. Daniel 54 A New Case 'on the Circulation of Deliberate Fabrications...' 54 Miscellaneous 57 'Chats' 58 Persecution of the Initiative Group to Defend the Rights of the Disabled 59 Events in the Ukraine 63 The Trial of Sokulsky and Prikhodko 63 The Trial of Kandyba 63 The Trial of Antsupov 64 The Trial of Rnisa Rudenko 65 The Trial of Kampov 66 The Arrest of Plakhotnyuk 67 The Arrest of Goryn (Horyn) 68 The Fortieth Anniversary of Baby Yar 71 Miscellaneous 77 Events in Georgia 79 Events in Lithuania 82 The Death of B. Laurinavièius 83 Persecution of Catholics 84 Persecution of Believers 89 Adventists 89 Trials 89 The Arrest of Konev 89 Searches 89 Baptists 89 The Trials of Rumachik and Minyakov 89 The Arrests of Gomon and Lebedeva 90 Miscellaneous 90 Pentecostalists 91 Uniates 91 The Trial of Esip and Kovatsiv 92 Orthodox Christians 92 The Right to Leave 93 Moscow 93 The Trial of Chernobylsky 93 The Arrest of Tomachinsky 97 Miscellaneous 99 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Leningrad 111 The Trial of Lein 111 Miscellaneous 113 Sverdlovsk 115 The illustrations are to be found between pages 87 and 88 The Arrest of Shefer and Elchin 115 Novosibirsk 115 Krasnoyarsk 116 1 Moscow prisoners of conscience Irina Grivnina, Tatyana Kiev 119 Osipova, Yury Grimm The Trial of Zubko 121 2 Valentin and Natalya Mitskevich with Ivan KovalUv, Miscellaneous 121 arrested Chronicle editor Kharkov 123 3 Felix Sere rov, cr tic of psychiatric abuse given 9 The Trial of Paritsky 123 years, and wtfe Odessa 125 4 Arseny Roginsky, Leningrad historian: 4 years for Chernovtsy 126 historical document Riga 127 5 Andrei Sakharov with daughter-in-law Elizaveta Alek- Vilnius 129 seyeva The Departure of Ellzaveta Alekseyeva 128 6 Anatoly Marchenko (15-year term for his writings) Have Left 139 building a house In the Prisons and Camps 139 7 Vsevolod Kuvakin, 6 years for free trades union The Trial of Airikyan 139 activity (SMOT) The Trial of Ovsienko 140 8 Mihail Zotov, artist psychiatrically interned for SMOT The Trial of Streltsov 140 activity The Trial of Lesiv 140 9 Vladimir Skvirsky, geologist resentenced for SMOT The Case of Vasily Sichko 140 activity The Case of Kukobaka 141 10 Rushania Fedyakina, activist of prisoners aid fund Chistopol Prison 141 11 Pavel Kampov, teacher given 13 years Eor Ukrainian The Mordovian Camps 142 nationalism The Perm Camps 146 12 SergeL Korekhov, Siberian worker: 6 years for critical In Other Prisons and Camps 156 leaflets Letters and Statements by Political Prisoners 165 13 Stanislav Zubko, jailed leader of Kiev's Jewish In Defence of Political Prisoners 168 emigration movement Political Prisoners' Day 168 14 Evgeny Lein, Leningrad Jewish refusenik given 2-year Releases 169 1 term In Exile 171 15 Lein on trial in dock of a Leningrad court The Arrest of Khramtsov 173 16 Dmitry Shchiglik and Yan Mesh, Jewish activists, with The Trial of Kostava 174 Oleg Popov The Trial of Skvirsky 175 17 Demonstration by Ukrainians Y. Dzyuba, A. Zinchenko and Releases 176 (11-year term) Evgeny Antsupov In the Psychiatric Hospitals 177 18 Ivan Sokulsky, journalist: 15 years for helping In the Special Hospitals 177 Ukrainian Helsinki Group Biographies (N.I. Baranov) 177 19 Grigory Prikhodko: 15 years in Ukraine for "anti- Releases 180 Soviet activity" Under Sentence of 'Compulsory Work at Official 20 Aleksei Ttkhy: 15 years for co-founding Ukrainian Direction' 180 Helsinki Group The Trial of Ermolayev 180 21 Bogdan Rebrik, technician: 10 years for Ukrainian Releases 182 samtzdat After Release 182 22 Veljo Kalep, Estonian engineer: 4-year term for Extrajudicial Persecution 184 samizdat activity After the Trials of Lavut and Osipova 184 23 Viktor Niitsoo, Estonian architect: 4 years for criti- Miscellaneous Reports 195 cizing regime Secret Searches 199 24 Juris Bumeisters: 15 years for leading Latvian Social Human Rights Day in Moscow 200 Democrats Letters and Statements 201 25 Alfreds ZarinS, Latvian teacher: 3 years for dissent Documents of the Moscow Helsinki Group 202 26 Ricardas Cerniauskas, Lithuanian priest: detained for Samizdat News 203 conducting religious retreat Official Documents 206 27 Eduard Bulakh, Vilnius Pentecostal interned in mental Addenda and Corrigenda 207 hospital The Case of Sidenko 208 28 Dmitry Minyakov, Baptist preacher given 5 years in The Case of Yakunin 209 Estonia The Case of Kalep 210 29-30 Lyubov Fokanova and Yury Grachikov, young Adventists The Case of Niitsoo 211 given 3 years for religious activity Corrections to the English Edition 212 31 The special psychiatric hospital in Leningrad Endnotes 213 32 Nikolai Baranov, technician psychiatrically interned Bibliographical Note 214 A Note on Photographs since 1968 Index of Names 216 217 33 Evgenv Martynov, Pentecostal Interned 3 years In mental PREFACE hospitals 34-35 Views of a labour camp in Moldavia 36 House of disabled Yury Kiselev: mysteriously burned down A Chronicle of Current Events was initially produced in 1968 37 mVD prison in Tobolsk which held Kirin. Podrabinek as a Ti-mont-hTy-Tournar. Th the spring of that year members of the Soviet Civil Rights Movement created the journal with the stated intention of publicizing issues and events related to Soviet citizens' efforts to exercise fundamental human liberties. On the title page of every issue there appears the text of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration ABBREVIATIONS of Human Rights, which calls for universal freedom of opinion and expression. The authors are guided by the principLe that such universal guarantees of human rights (also similar guarantees in their domestic law) should be ASSR & AutonoMous Soviet Socialist Republic. Subordinate firmly adhered to in their own country and elsewhere. They RSFSR to any SSR (see below) and based on the minority feel that 'it is essential that truthful information about nationality whose home is on the territory. violations of basic human rights in the Soviet Union should The Mordovian ASSR, for example, is subordinate be available to all who are interested in it'. The to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Repub- Chronicles consist mostly of accounts of such violations.
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