The Ukrainian Weekly 1977, No.31
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www.ukrweekly.com СВОБОДАІЦSVOBODA П П УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ щоденник чШвКУ UKBAINIANOAIIV rainiaENGLISH LANGUAGnE WEEKL YWeelc EDITION f Ї VOL. LXXXIVШ No. 181 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 21,1977 25CEKS^ ^n American Lawyer Wishes to Defend Terelya Arrested After Marynovych, Matusevych Denouncing Soviet Asylums SoWef Dissidents Appeal to West for Assistance NEW YORK, N.Y.—Yosyp Terelya, nek as being a member of the Moscow a 34-year-old Ukrainian poet and one- Group to Promote the implementation time political prisoner, was re-arrested of the Helsinki Accords, and Kaplun as by the KGB last April after making a being a Soviet dissident. The other two strong indictment of Soviet psychiatric persons are unknown in the West. abuses, reported the press service of the Terelya'e case also attracted the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council attention of western journalists, in his (abroad). Wednesday, August 17th column, no- Terelya, who already spent 14 years ted American investigative columnist, in prison, was "driven to despair" by the Jack Anderson, described the tortures repressions he faced during his brief experienced by Terelya during his period of freedom late last year, said prison and psychiatric asylum confine– members of the Soviet affiliate of the ments. Committee Against Psychiatric Abuse Terelya was born in 1943 in the Myroslav Marynovych Mykola Matusevych for Political Purposes, and he wrote in a Transcarpathian region of Ukraine. .letter to Y. Andropov, the KGB chief, The four Soviet dissidents noted in their NEW YORK, N.Y.—An American jobs for supporting the plight of politi– that Soviet mental asylums "would have appeal that Terelya quickly began to bW;bjfca^ lojewe asadefense cal prisoners. Until his arrest, he made been the envy of Dante for characters "react often and emotionally to all counsel for Myrostavl^rylfc^ftafitf a living from menial jobs. and descriptions of scenes from hell." discrimnatory actions against Ukrai– Mykola Matusevych, two additional Four dissidents, who belong to the nians." members of the Kiev Public Group to Marynovych, 28, is an electrical His candidness resulted in expulsion engineer, but he was not allowed to Soviet branch of the London-based Promote the implementation of the organization, appealed on June 1st to from school and led to secret polic Helsinki Accords who were arrested by work in that field. For associating with Ukrainian dissidents and for his so- Western psychiatrists for help in Tere– (Continued on page 2) the KGB in April, announced the Com– lya's case. mittee for the Defense of Soviet Politi– called independent thinking, Maryno– vych was fired from his job three "Our working commission appeals to cal Prisoners. the psychiatrists of the world and to ! times. At one time he worked as an edi– tor in the journal "Tekhnika". humanity to stand up in defense of Soviet High Court Adam Kanarek, who was contacted Yosyp Terelya," wrote v. Bakhmin, 1. by the Defense Committee, agreed to Both were arrested on April 24, Kaplun, A. Podrabinek and F. Sere– assume the responsibilities without 1977, almost three months after Ru– brov. To Review Terms charge. denko and Tykhy were arrested. The press service identified Podrabi– This is the second U.S. lawyer to de– Of Rudenko, Tykhy cide to serve as an attorney for arrested NEW YORK, N.Y. - The sen– Ukrainian rights advocates. tences meted out to Mykola Ruden– ko and Oleksa Tykhy are expected to Earlier this year the Committee Attorneys to Prepare for 1st Conference be reviewed by the Supreme Court of secured the services of Ramsey Clark, NEW YORK, N.Y.— initially tenta– lawyers in Canada. The interim period the Ukrainian SSR, in mid-August former Attorney General, on behalf of tively scheduled for May of this year, has seen an extensive mail solicitation learned the press service of the Mykola Rudenko, and Oleksiy Tykhy. the organizational conference of Ukrai– effort as well as innumerable meetings Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Mr. Clark was denied entrance to the nian American attorneys will convene Council (abroad). Soviet Union by Moscow officials. of the. Committee and its executive. the weekend of September 24-25 in Members of the committee traveled to Rudenko and Tykhy, chairman Matusevych and Marynovych are be– Cleveland, O, at the Port O'Call inn, Canada in April and May to discuss the and member, respectively, of the ing confined in a Kiev prison. They are three minutes from Hopkins interna– practicability of an eventual North Kiev Public Group to Promote the being charged under article 62 of the tional Airport. American Bar Association embracing implementation of the Helsinki Ukrainian Criminal Code, which deals Accords, were the first of the He!sin– The Conference will be the culmina– lawyers from both Canada and the ki monitors to be tried and sentenced with "anti-Soviet agitation and propa– tion of an effort begun in December of U.S. The consensus reached at that time ganda". in the Soviet Union. Rudenko was 1976 by the Bar Association Organizing was to defer immediate integration of sentenced to seven years imprison– The New York-based Defense Com– Committee, an "ad hoc" affiliation of American and Canadian lawyers into ment and five years exile, and Tykhy mittee reported that the two are being lawyers of Ukrainian descent intent one association, but to pursue the issue received a 10-year sentence followed regarded by Soviet officials as "dan– upon bringing to fruition a drive to at the conference with the view toward by five years exile. gerous state criminals". satisfy a sorely felt need for a nationwide at least informal cooperative efforts. Both are presently incarcerated in Ukrainian bar association. The working agenda for the confer– the Donetske prison. Matusevych, 31, was a history stu– . Concerned with the need to fully ence is currently being finalized. Deter– The Council's press service also dent before he was barred from com– explore the possibility of present or mination of the institutional structure reported that members of the Ukrai– pleting his higher education for his nian group asked that Ukrainians in future cooperation between American and other fundamentals will be made by convictions. At one time he was the free world intensify their defense arrested and detained for 15 days for and. Canadian lawyers of Ukrainian floor vote of the lawyers attending the efforts in view of the forthcoming participating in Christmas carolling descent, the committee deferred the conference after consideration of sug– review. Matusevych was also fired from several conference pending discussions with (Continued on page 4) Rally in Defense of Ukrainian Rights - Sunday, September, 18,1977, New York City - Be There! THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST21,1977 No. 181 Michael Terpak Promoted at YOA Perm Prisoners Remind West WASHINGTON, n.c.–Michael Mr. Terpak held the post of deput) Of Soviet Rights violations Terpak, head of the Ukrainian section chief of the political section of Radio of the voice of America since March Liberty since 1952 until his transfer to NEW YORK, N.Y.—in an open iet– signated by the United Nations as 1964, has been promoted to the post of the voice ol America in March of 1964. ter to free world leaders and diplomats, "Human Rights Day". The signifi– deputy chief of the entire Soviet Divi– During his tenure as director of v'OA's received here by the press service of the cance of the other dates is unknown. sion which, in addition to the Ukrainian Ukrainian section, the broadcasts to Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council The political prisoners wrote that Ukraine quadrupled and their content (abroad), political prisoners in Zone 35 section, includes the Armenian. Geor– hunger strikes are held for months at a became more pronounced in Ukrainian of the Perm concentration camp gian, Russian and Uzbek sections. Mr. time. Even though the strikes drain the themes. pointed out that while humanitarian Terpak's promotion became effective as prisoners of their energies, they con– Active in New York's Ukrainian com– treaties are adopted by the countries of of August 15th. tinue with them because for them they munity when he was with Radio Liber– the world, their provisions are not ad– are the only form of self-defense. Assuming the post of acting director ty, Mr. Terpak and his wife participated hered to in the Soviet Union. of the Ukrainian section as of the same in the UYLNA festivals "Echoes of "Somewhere out there you make date is Miss Oksana Dragan, editor of Ukraine", staged in those years under "Diplomats, government leaders speeches, sign minutes, make pro– the Ukrainian section. the egis of the UNA. sign new treaties about human rights, mises... but here nothing changes; left free flow of information, the end of to rely on our own strength, we are torture, but we must hold hunger forced to hold hunger strikes to protest Ottawa to Keep "Open Mind" striker because in the USSR none of against "the always newer and newer that is implemented," said the pri– illegality of the officials, against re– soners. pressions, and the curtailing of our On Sending MP's to Belgrade rights," they wrote. For political inmates, they wrote, the OTTAWA, Ont.—A spokesman for to the CSCE talks in Belgrade and whe– only form of defense is hunger strikes. The prisoners wrote that this year on the Canadian government said Wed– ther parliamentarians would be includ– They wrote that such strikes are held in August 1st they changed their tactics. nesday, July 6, that the government ed in the make-up. prisons, camps and psychiatric They said that "amidst the ringing of will keep "an open mind" about send– Sen. Langlois said that the current asylums. differen speeches" they continue to ing parliamentarians to the main meet– Canadian representation consists of: live behind barbed wire, and possibly ing of the Conference on Security and W.T.