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Soviet Ukraine Journal of the H an Rights Movement in the USSR • ...CIL •4 t7.1 V.;450' to • foi 'Vow, • • esty International Publications A Chronicle of Current Events Number 52 ronic e o urrent vents Number 52 Amnesty International Publications 10 Southampton Street London WC2E 7HF 1980 Subscription ra e inside back cover Russian original C Khronika Press 197M, New York Contents English translation copyright C Amnesty International, 1980 Page All rights reserved List of Illustrations iii Published 1979 by Amnesty International Publications Abbreviations iv Designed and produced by Index on Censorship,London and New York Preface Printed in Great Britain by Billing & Sons, Ltd, London ISBN 0 86210 004 6 AI index EUR 46 /01/80 Chronicle No. 52 (1 March 1979) Copyright of photographs : requests for permission to reproduce any of The Case of the Explosion on the Underground the photographs in this book should be directed to Amnesty International 1 Publications, 10 Southampton Street, London WC2E 711F, England, The Death of Gely Snegiryov 10 which will pass such requests on to copyright-holders. The Trial of Ovsienko 14 Arrests, Searches, Interrogations 18 The Zisels Case 18 The Kuleshov Case 21 The Morozov Case 22 The Case of the Journal Searches 23 The Case of the Journal Jews in the USSR 25 In the Prisons and Camps 28 Chistopol Prison 28 The Mordovian Camps 28 The Perm Camps 29 In Other Prisons and Camps 48 Letters and Statements of Political Prisoners 51 In Defence of Political Prisoners 68 Releases 70 In Exile 71 In the Psychiatric Hospitals 73 In Special Psychiatric Hospitals 73 In Ordinary Hospitals 74 Releases 76 After Release 77 Persecution of Crimean Tatars 79 Resolution No. 700 79 Deportations from the Crimea 80 Delegations of Crimean Tatars in Moscow 88 The Arrest of Seidamet Memetov 94 The Arrest of Mustafa Dzhemilev 95 Events in Lithuania 97 The Arrest of Ragai§is 97 Persecution of Believers 101 Orthodox Christians 101 Adventists 102 Baptists 106 Pentecostalists 108 The Right to Leave 109 Have Left 114 Defence of the Rights of the Disabled 114 On the Aletropol Almanac 119 List of Illustrations Miscellaneous Reports 123 Human Rights Day 123 1-2 Sergei Ermolayev and Igor Polyakov, young Orthodox Christians One More Deported National Group 127 heavily sentenced for shouting political slogans The Right to Marry 132 3 Shagen Arutyunyan, Armenian Helsinki Group, serving 3 years Letters and Statements 134 4 Mikhail Osadchy, Ukrainian writer photographed in Urals exile Documents of the Moscow Helsinki Group 136 5 Vyacheslav Chornovil, Ukrainian journalist photographed in Samizdat News 138 Siberian exile Lithuanian Samizdat 143 6 Vasily Romanyuk, Ukrainian priest seen in Siberian exile Estonian Samizdat 145 7 Ona Pranskunaite, Lithuanian Catholic activist, on her release Official Documents 146 8 Irina Ginzburg, Lyudmila Gryunberg, Vera Lashkova on Potma Addenda and Corrigenda 155 station 9 Sergei Khodorovich, Irina Ginzburg and Julia Zaks, Moscow Endnotes 156 dissenters Bibliographical Note 157 10 Georgy Vladimov, Moscow writer and chairman of Amnesty In- Index of Names 159 ternational group 11 Vasily Spinenko, Donetsk philosophy student, psychiatrically interned since 1971 12 The Special Psychiatric Hospital at Dnepropetrovsk 13 Nikolai Demyanov, Moscow dissenter psychiatrically interned since 1971 14 Valeria Makeyeva, Moscow nun arrested several times, interned in 1979 15 Nikolai Baranov, Leningrad worker imprisoned almost con- tinuously since 1963 16 Alexander Mikhel, Adventist given 3 years for pacifism 17 Julius Sasnauskas, Lithuanian Catholic subjected to police search 18 Baptist leaflet featuring arrested P. Panafidin, Ya. Fot, I. Antonov, P. Peters 19-20 Father Bronius Laurinavilius and Ona Lukauskaite-Potkiene, members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group 21 Marquee being built by Baptists in Moldavia 22 The marquee after being demolished by the authorities 23-4 Arnold Spalin and Ilya Lepshin, Adventists sentenced in Tashkent to 5 years each 25-6 Baptists in Dedovsk, near Moscow, are rounded up by police and vigilantes Preface A Chronicle of Current Events was initially produced in 1968 as a bi- monthly journal. In the spring of that year members of the Soviet Civil Rights Movement created thc 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 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 firmly adhered to in their own country and elsewhere. They feel that 'it is essential that truthful information about violations of basic human rights in the Soviet Union should be available to 01 who are interested in it'. The Chronicles consist mostly of accounts of such violations. In an early issue it was stated that 'the Chronicle does, and will do, its utmost to ensure that its strictly factual style is maintained to the greatest degree possible.. ..' The Chronicle has consistently maintained a high standard of accuracy. As a regular practice the editors openly acknowledge when a piece of information has not been thoroughly verified. When mistakes in reporting occur, these mistakes are retro- spectively drawn to the attention of readers. In February 1971, starting with number 16, Amnesty International began publishing English translations of the Chronicles as they appeared. This latest volume, containing Chronicle 52, is, like previous ones, a translation of a copy of the original typewritten text (which reached the West on 3 November 1979). The editorial insertions are the end- notes (numbered) and the words in square brackets. The table of con- tents, abbreviations, illustrations, index of names, bibliographical note and material on the outside and inside of the cover have been added to help the general reader. None of this material appeared in the original texts. The endnotes have been kept to a minimum, partly because the Russian text already refers to earlier issues, and partly because the index of names gathers together all references to a particular person. Ukrainian names are usually given in transliteration from the Russian, not in Ukrainian forms. Since Amnesty International has no control over the writing of A Chronicle of Current Events, we cannot guarantee the veracity of all its contents. Nor do we take responsibility for any opinions or judge- ments which may appear to be implied in its contents. Yet Amnesty The Struggle for Human Rights in the International continues to regard A Chronicle of Current Events as an Soviet Union Continues authentic and reliable source of information on matters of direct con- cern to our own work for the worldwide observance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty International A Chronicle of Current Events January 1980 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right in- cludes freedom to hold opinions with- Abbreviations out interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas ASSR Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Subordinate to any through any media and regardless of S S R (see below) and based on the minority nationality frontiers. whose home is on the territory. The Mordovian A S S R, for example, is subordinate to the Russian Soviet Federat- ed Socialist Republic and so named because it is the Universal Declaration of Human home of the Mordovian national minority. Rights, Article 19 CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union. G B Committee for State Security. Komsomol Communist Youth League. M V D Ministry of Internal Affairs. V D Department of Internal Affairs. VIR Department (of the M V D) for Visas and Registration. S S R Soviet Socialist Republic, of which there are 15 in the Number 52 1 March 1979 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U S S R). V D Administration for Internal Affairs. Contents The case of the explosion on the underground. The death of Gely Snegiryov. The trial of Ovsienko. Arrests, searches, interrogations. In the prisons and camps. In exile. In the psychiatric hospitals. After release. Persecution of Crimean Tatars. Events in Lithuania. Persecu- tion of believers. The right to leave. Defence of the rights of the disabled. On the 'Metropol' almanac. Miscellaneous reports. Letters and statements. Samizdat news. Official documents. Addenda and corrigenda. TWELFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION The Case of the Explosion on the Underground On 8 January 1977 an explosion occurred in a Moscow underground train. The authorities immediately tried to link this act of terrorism with dissident activity (Chronicle 44). On 31 January 1979 the follow- ing report was published: In the Supreme Court of the USSR : The Judicial Board for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the USSR has examined in open session the criminal case against the specially dangerous recidivist S. S. Zatikyan and his two accomplices, charged with causing an explosion in January 1977 in a carriage of the Moscow underground, as a consequence of which there were human victims. In the course of the court examination the guilt of the accused was fully proven by witnesses' testimony, by the report of a corn- mission of experts and by other case materials. Zatikyan and his accomplices were sentenced to the highest measure of punishment — the death penalty. The sentence was carried out. * • • The three men who were convicted and executed were Stepan Zatikyan, Akop Stepanyan and Zaven Bagdasaryan. Stepan Zatikyan (b. 1946) finished school with a gold medal and was admitted to the Erevan Polytechnic Institute. In 1968 fifth-year student Zatikyan was arrested as an active participant of a group publishing the underground newspaper The Beacon (Paros). This was the group out of which grew the National United Party of Armenia — the N U P.
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