The Ukrainian Weekly 1982, No.6
www.ukrweekly.com з: ггзс 0>1 CD ^ , ТНЕІ СВОБОДА 4^ SVOBODA І І ІЛ- t, \'! z x - О -Ч о -і і: О О г -п о о О о "о о z m О дз аз - Рі о ся о Ukrainian WeeH W - PUBUSHED BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC., A FRATERNAL, NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION У Vol. t No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 25 cat? Soviet policy toward invalids: Helsinki monitor Lesiv intentional neglect, inhumanity sentenced to five years NEW YORK - Yaroslav Lesiv, 37, NEW YORK - Thousands of to a wheelchair and lives in a building member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Soviet paraplegics and other invalids, with no elevator; and Valeriy Fefe- group, was sentenced to five years' many of them World War II veterans, lov, 33, who has been a paraplegic imprisonment, reported the External are forced to eke out an existence since suffering an industrial accident Representation of the Ukrainian Hel with virtually no government assis when he was 17, have all suffered sinki Group. tance, are banished from most major reprisals. Mr. Lesiv was first sentenced in 1967 city centers, and are often beaten by All three, plus contributors to the to six years in camp and five years of police if they wander into busy group's bulletins, have been harassed internal exile for membership in the downtown areas because they spoil by the KGB. On March 5, 1981, Mr. Ukrainian National Front. the view for tourists and foreigners, Kiselev`s small workshop in the In September 1979, he joined the reported Freedom Appeals, a bi Crimea, which his friends helped Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and in monthly human-rights journal.
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