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A Chronicle of Current Events A Chronicle of Current Events A Journal of the Soviet Civil Rights Movement produced bi-monthly in Moscow since 1968 Issue No. 21 11 September1971 (Moscow) CONTENTS Political trials [p. 269-73].The DAPropetrovskpsychiatric hospitalof special type [p. 273-74]. Open lettersfrom A. I. Solzhenitsynto Andropov,USSR Ministerof StateSecurity, and Kosygm, Chairmanof the USSR Councilof Ministers [p. 274-76].Materials of the Committeefor Human Rights (Moscow) [p. 276-79].The investigationinto the case of V. Bukovsky [p. 280-811.The Jewish movementto leave for Israel [p. 281-861.The Meskhetianmovement [p. 286-87]. Religiouspersecution [p. 287-88].News in brief [p. 289-95]. Samizdat news [p. 296-98]. Index of ProperNames (p. 299) AmnestyInternational Publications December1971 Hie wement in Defence of Human Rights in the USSR Continues A Chronicle of Current Events "Everyone has the right to free- dom of (minion and expression: I his right Include.%• freerl(mt to h()Id opinions vit h1. nel interference and h See . receive (Uhl Munro in for- urati( m mid ideas through any 1111)i-ha and regardle vs of In milers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Anicle 19 Issue NO. 21 11 September 1971 (Moscow) CONTENTS Political trials [p. 269-73]. The Dnepropetrovsk psychiatric hospital of special type [p 273-74]. Open letters from A. I. Solzhenitsyn to Andropov, USSR Minister of State Security. [This is a rather literal translation of the typewritten and kosygin, (Thairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Russian originals produced in Moscow and circulated in [p. 274-76] Materials of the Conunittee for Human Rights samizdat. Only the words in square brackets have been (Moscow) [p. 276-79]. The Investigation into the case of V. added by the translators. Bukovsky [p. 280-81]. The Jewish movement to leave for Israel [p. 281-861 The Meskhettan movement [p. 286-87]. Religious persecution [p. 287-88]. News in brief [p. 289-951. Surnizdat news [p. 296-981. 267 The Movement in Defence of Human Rights in the USSR Continues A Chronicle of Current Events "Everyone has the right to free- dom of opinion and expression: this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek „ receive and impart inf or- motion and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 Issue No. 21 11 September 1971 (Moscow) CONTENTS Political trials [p. 269-73]. The Dnepropetrovsk psychiatric hospital of special type [p. 273-741. Open letters from A. I. Solzhenitsyn to Andropov, USSR Millster of State Security, and Kosygin. Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers [p. 274-76] Materials of the Committee for Human Rights (Moscow) [p. 276-79] The investigation into the case of V. Bukovsky [p. 280-81]. The Jewish movement to leave for Israel [p. 281-86]. The Meskhetian movement [p. 286-87]. Religious persecution [p. 287-88]. News in brief [p. 289-95]. Samizdat news [p. 296 98]. 267 Political Trials Flu' Trial ( f V. Dremlyuga YakWiwi Autonomous Republic INF Siberia]. The trial of laidimir Dremlyuga, indicted for a second time under article 190-I [of the Russian Criminal Code], took place in late August at an assize session of the Yakutian Supreme Court in the town of Lensk, on penal institution territory. 11A2 court sentenced Dremlyuga to three years of strict- regime camps. Defence counsel Kulginsky (of Yakutsk). \Ohl had been engaged by relatives of the accused, was not present at the trial: another lawyer (•hose name is unknown) was sent in his place. An attempt to engage a lawxer in Moscow hail met with no success, as permission for this had been refused bv the Moscow Collegium of Lawyers (for deutils see Cho/tid(' No. 20). 25 August marked the end of the three-year term in the camps to which Dremlyuga was sentenced for taking part in the demonstration in Red Square (1968).' During these three years he has received only one parcel and a few letters. His mother. an aged invalid, has been unable to make the journey to visit hi in, while contacts with friends have been Mocked by the canip administration. According to uncon- firmed reports, about forty witnesses—all felkiw prisoners of Dremlyuga were caned at the trial. and testified that he had expressed "slanderolls fabrications". 'The Trial of I). Itlikhever and 1. de Perr6,Paux Mosonv. The trial of Dmitry Mikheyev and Francois de Perregaux (a citizen of Switzerland) took place in public on the premises of the Moscow City Court On 17-23 August (for the arrests and investigations see Chnmicle Nos. 16, 18). The investigator was KGB Major Fochenkov. - The chairman of the court was [V. V.] Bogdanov, the prosecutor—Procurator Vasilev, counsel for Mikheyev- 11. On Elk demonstration and trial see N. tiorbanevskaya's book Po/i/ri (Posscv-Verlag, Frankfurt. 1969), due to be published F riblish in January 1972 by Deutsch as Red Squaw (ll Nums.1 269 [Leonid] Popov, for de Perregaux—[Nikolail BorovikY Czechoslovakia, and about the ntas repression which he Those present in court included, besides the "regalar claimed would take place if there were to be a war with audience" [i.e. plain-clothes police], Mikheyev's mother (Anna, and so on); and female cousin, de Perregaux's father, tsvo or three rep- that he duplicated and circulated books by [the resentatives of the Swiss embassy, member of the Com- philosopher] Rerdyayev, Technoloky 01 Power by mittee for Human Rights A. D. Sakharov, and representa- Avtorkhanov" ;Ind the "Programme of the Democrats of tives of the Physics Faculty and the iidministration of Russia, the Ukraine, Belorussia and the lialtic"yi Moscow University. A 32-millimetre cine-camera and that he exchange( Siwiet currency in a number of Videotape-recorder were installed in the court-room. illegal operations, using false documents and a false •. F. Mikheyev (born 1e/41, • post-graduate student at signature, and that he Prklctisc&l forging die signature; the Physics Faculty of Moscow University and vice- that he attempted to leave the USSR by using the president of the Physicists' International Discussion Club) passport and aeroplane ticket of the Swiss national de was charged under articles 64 (via 15), 70, 83 and 196 of the PerregallX. Russian Criminal (70de: de Perregaux (born 1937, a Nolo- De Perregaux was charged vith coming to the USSR gist)—under article 64 (via 17). with the object Of helping Nilik to leave the country, The indictment against Niikheyev made the following for which purpose he had given the latter his passport and charges: his ticket for an aeroplane hound for Austria. ( I) that in consequence of his anti-Soviet beliefs and with When questioned, Mikheyev testified that when he was a treacherous aims, including engaging in anti-Soviei propa- student at Moscow University he had shared a room with ganda, he attempted to carry out an escape across the foreign students, made friends with many of them, and border, in connection with which he twice travelled to the discussed with them various questions of the internal affairs area of the Soviet-Finnish fronder for purposes of recon- of the USSR. Attempting to develop independence of naissance, and received a map of this area by diplomatic thought, he had analysed the state of affairs in the country mail from his friend Anika ftickstriiin in Sweden; and gradually evolved one-sided views on events taking that after his escape he intended to request political place, making an incorrect appraisi.t1 of Soviet reality. His asylum, issue anti-Soviet statements, and engage in anti- views had now altered, for which he was grateful to the Soviet propaganda activity: officials of the KGB, When dreaming of going abroad he that through the Austrian exchange-student Karl- had intended to live a modest life there as a secondary- oseph Vogelmann he attempted to send abroad by diplo- school teacher, not engaging in politics. Fle had not realised matic mail a packet containing personal articles, 165 dollars, at the time that those who were helping him to carry out his his diaries, and manuscripts of slanderous content called escape would not leave him in peace. "How to fool the people" and "Empire of lies"; De Perregaux testified that he had been aware that the that he was the author of the slanderous work "How to reasons for Mikheyev's escape were political, but he knew fool the people", •hich he typed in four copies and gave to little of such matters, as he was not interested in politics. his friends Ovchinnikov, die Shakhnazarovs, the Veliicanovs He had agreed to help Mikheyev because he wished to visit and others to read: that he made slanderous statements Moscow. He had not taken money for helping, but had verbally (about the level of democracy in the USSR, the helped out of humanitarian considerations. lack of freedom of information and of the pre-conditions Qiwstioning of. iv/messes for free creative work; about the sending of troops into Kisin refused to answer a question as to what Mikheyev 12. Borovik has been provided by the Soviet authorities to deferi-d I.e. A. Avtorkhanov. Tekhnologiya vlasti, Frankfurt, I9591 several other foreigners in political cases. e.g. the Englkhman I.e. Prouanuna Demoknitichnko.20 Drizheniya Soverskogo Ggrald Brooke in 19b5.] Soyuza, Amsterdam, 1970.] 270 271 had given him to read (Kisin was due to defend his disser- inability to refuse a request made by a friLnd —and asked tation on 3 March 1971, but this was cancelled, and the the court to limit his punishment to the period he had spent notice announcing it withdrawn front the newspaper Even- in pre-trial detention.
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