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The Ukrainian Weekly 1985 Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! One Ж 9 1. - О О - c rainian Weekly Лгс Vol. Llll No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1985 25 cents Underground religious activist captured;Republican s Broomfield, Gilman faces "anti-Soviet activity" charges named to famine commission JERSEY CITY. N.J. - Ukrainian WASHINGTON - Two Republican Two Democratic House members. religious activist Yosyp Terelia. who members of the House of Rep. Dan Mica of Florida and Rep. went into hiding last fall to avoid arrest, Representatives were named to the Dennis Hertel of Michigan, were named was captured by Soviet authorities on Commission on the Ukraine Famine on to the commission by Rep. O'Neill on February 8 and charged with "anti- May 15. reported Americans for March 28. Soviet" activities, according to Human Rights in Ukraine. information provided May 17 by the The appointees are Rep. William S. Rep. Mica was named chairman of U.S. delegation to the ongoing experts Broomfield of Michigan's 18th District the commission, which is to be meeting on human rights in Ottawa. composed of four members of the and Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman of New House, two senators, three executive News of the 41-ycar-old activist's York's 22nd District. branch representatives and six public arrest was contained in an annex to a The appointments were made by members selected from the Ukrainian U.S. delegation statement on religious House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. community. persecution in the Soviet Union. Mr. of Massachusetts in consultation with Terelia`s name was included in a list of Minority Leader Robert Michel of The executive branch appointments incarcerated believers, but no details of Illinois, as provided in the famine were announced by President Ronald his arrest were provided. commission bill. Reagan on February 12. The capture of M r. Terelia is a serious blow to the burgeoning movement to legalize the underground Ukrainian Catholic Church, which was dissolved U.S. scores Soviets' religious repression in 1946 by an unsanctioned synod. As one of the founders in 1982 of the at Ottawa human-rights conference Initiative Group for the Defense of the Rights of Believers and the Church, Mr. by Mykhailo Bociurkiw Soviet Union. The annex included the Terelia worked to obtain permission t'o names of four Ukrainian Catholics: register the church, which claims an OTTAWA - The United States and Yosyp Terelia, who in 1982 formed a estimated 5 million adherents in western other Western countries this week group seeking registration of the Ukraine. continued to attack the Soviet Union's outlawed Ukrainian Catholic (Uniate) human-rights record at the human church; Ana Mykhailenko, Hryhoriy Yosyp Terelia Budzynsky, and Vasyl Kobryn. Underground publication rights experts meeting in Ottawa. The armed resistance and the fate of Raoul U.S. delegation scored the Soviets, in Mr. Schifter cited the forcible merging of the estimated 4 million Mr. Terelia was also involved with Wallenberg. particular, for repression of religious members of the Ukrainian Catholic editing the Initiative Group's Mr. Terelia, who has already spent activity. Church into the Russian Orthodox underground publication, the some 15 years in Soviet penal or A U.S. address - which produced a Church after World War II as an Chronicle of the Catholic Church in psychiatric institutions, reportedly went strong rebuttal from the Soviet Union example ot a religious denomination Ukraine. First published in January into hiding in November 1984. shortly - was delivered on Friday, May 17, by prohibited from existing in the Soviet 1984, it reported on the persecution of after authorities searched his home in Richard Schifter, Washington's chief Union. Ukrainian Catholic and other activists in the Lviv region of western Ukraine. envoy to the 35-country conference. It Ukraine, but also contained Earlier, he had ignored a summons denounced violations of religious information on such diverse topics as (Continued on page 15) freedom in the Soviet Union, including Soviet rebuttal the persecution of four Ukrainian religious activists. In a 60-minute rebuttal to the U.S. Mr. Schifter's speech came two days speech. Vscvolod Sofinsky, the chief Zisels sentenced for "slandering" USSR after he said that Soviet performance on Soviet representative to the conference, the human-rights promises made in the told delegates that freedom of religion JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Human-rights Zisels of making pro-Jewish statements 1975 Helsinki Accords is linked to exists in the Soviet Union. He told the activist Yosyf Zisels was sentenced on and supporting the Solidarity trade progress at reaching an arms-reduction some 300 diplomats that religious April 10 to three years in a strict- union in Poland. agreement and possibly increased trade. activists have been convicted for regimen labor camp after being found The court also, heard written U.S. Commerce Secretary Malcolm violating Soviet criminal law and not guilty of "slandering the Soviet state." testimony from a 78-year-old witness, Baldridge began trade talks in Moscow for their beliefs. reported USSR News Brief. who testified that the defendant had left this week, while arms-reduction talks "If a religious person is convicted of a The 37-year-old engineer and former a copy of an Israeli journal in her house. between the two superpowers continued crime in the Soviet Union, it's because political prisoner was arrested last Mr. Zisels was also accused of in Geneva. he has violated the criminal law." he October 19 in his home town of "possessing for the purpose of The Ottawa conference, which told the Ottawa Citizen prior ю reading Chernivtsi. He is a member of the circulating" a number of books opened three weeks ago and continues his rebuttal. "But your Western Ukrainian Helsinki Group, which has published abroad. to June 17, is a follow-up to the 1975 propaganda announces he was been the target of severe repression Mr. Zisels pleaded not guilty to the Helsinki meeting. It is being held under imprisoned for his religious beliefs." since it was established in 1976 to charges and refused to participate in the tight security and behind closed doors Mr. Sofinsky cited numerous U.S. monitor Soviet compliance with the court proceedings or the preliminary in a refurbished train station on the state laws which he said discriminate Helsinki Accords on human rights and investigation. USSR News Brief banks of the Rideau Canal. against non-believers by prohibiting security in Europe. reported that he has filed an appeal. In his speech. Mr. Schifter said that them from holding state office. He said Mr. Zisel`s trial took place in the This is Mr. Zisel`s second conviction "the Soviet Union placed extraordinary that the U.S. persecutes atheists by town of Sokyriany in the Chernivtsi for "anti-Soviet" slander, and he could restrictive limitations on the exercise of printing "In God We Trust" on its region of Ukraine. He was accused of have received a much stiffer penalty. In religion." The right to "license religious currency. making slanderous statements against 1978 he was arrested for disseminating association often leads to denial in fact Immediately after the speech. Mr. the Soviet system while serving a lhree- Ukrainian and Russian underground of rights granted on paper." Sofinsky told reporters through an year term from 197.x to 1981 in a labor literature and sentenced the following An annex distributed by the U.S. interpreter that if the United States camp near Sokyriany. year to three years. delegation listed the names of about 35 persists in such attacks, it will have to The witnesses ;u lhe trial, which was In 1979 he joined the Ukrainian believers who have been persecuted for suffer the consequences. closed to the public, were lour prisoners Helsinki Group w hile in the labor camp religious observances outside of the Sergei Kondrachev. the deputy Head from the labor camp, who accused Mr. near Sokyriany. officially sanctioned churches of the (Continued on page 15) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1985 No. 21 Chornovil released from labor camp, sent to work camp in Yakutsk Chronicle of JERSEY CITY. N.j; Ukrainian dissident Vyacheslav Chornovil was the Catholic Church released from a labor camp in Yakutsk, but he is scheduled to remain in a work camp until August, reported Helsinki in Ukraine Watch, a human-rights monitoring group based in New York. The 47-year-old journalist, best known for chronicling the political trials in Ukraine in the mid-1960s, was Following are excerpts from Issue gunshots were heard by the field near scheduled to complete a five-year term No. (V of і he Chronicle of і he Catholic the river. It appears that even then for "attempted rape" on April 8. There Church irt Ukraine, an underground they were after him and wanted to were unconfirmed reports that he was publication which first appeared in catch him. So began the Rev. Petro`s four years of living underground. allowed to return to Kiev as early as January 1984 hut has only recently February, but has since gone back to a reached /he West. Trie Chronicle is It was then that many homes were opened to him. where he was greeted work camp in Yakutsk, some 3.100 published in samvydav form by.the miles east of Moscow. Initiative Group for the Defense of happily and where residents prayed In addition to the five-year term. Mr. Believers and the Church founded in with him all night. He was joined by Chornovil still faced four months and 19X2 to promote the legalization of others who shared his fate, and the four days of internal exile, and it Vyacheslav Chornovil the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
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