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J. Amnesty International j. Amnesty International February 1976 Vol VI No 2 newsletter Prisoners of Conscience Released inNepal Amnesty Seven AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL adoption and investigation cases, including a member of Ars Nepal Section, were among 27 political prisoners included in PRISONER RELEASES AND CASES an amnesty declared by King BIRENDRA BIR BIK RAM SHAM DEV of Nepal DURING 1975 on 29 December. The amnesty, to mark the king's 31st birthday, covered a The International Secretariat learned of the release of 1,688 Al-adopted total of 250 prisoners. prisoners during the calendar year According to information reaching Al in January, a substantial number of the 200 1975. This was an increase of 285 over political prisoners in Nepal are being released in stages. The releases follow the formation on the 1,403 prisoners released in 1974. 1 December of a new cabinet headed by Prime Minister TULSI GIRI. Some 2,015 new cases were taken Among those released was RAM RAJA Vidyarti Sangh, he was re-arrested on 3 up during 1975, a decrease of 443 from PRASAD SINGH, a Supreme Court lawyer, August 1972 and had been held since that the number of new cases taken up the who had been elected to Parliament in the time under the Security Act. He was on previous year. summer of 1971, but who was subsequently the AI Prisoners of the Month Campaign in These figures include the 123 re- arrested on 14 October 1971 and held July 1969 and March'1973. leases Al learned of in December and without trial under the Security Act. Al Secretary General MARTIN ENNALS the 145 new cases taken up in the final Another Al-adopted prisoner who was wrote to King Birendra on 31 December month of the year. released with him was SHER BAHADUR 1975 congratulating the government warmly DEUPA, president of the Nepal Vidyarti on the release of the political prisoners. Sangh (Nepali Students' Organization), who Prime Minister Tulsi Giri, when meeting the Peru Detains Lawyers is a member of the Al Nepalese Section and Al Asian Field Secretary RICHARD REOCH Al's Secretary General cabled President who had been imprisoned without trial since shortly before the official amnesty FRANCISCO MORALES BERMUDEZ of June 1974. announcement, reportedly stated that all the Peru on 21 January expressing concern at Fifteen political prisoners were released estimated 200 political prisoners detained the long detention incommunicado of four earlier in December 1975, among them under the Security Act were to be released well-known Peruvian lawyers. AI had KRISHNA PRASAD BHATTARAI, speaker in the following three months, except for previously cabled the Peruvian authorities on of Nepal's first parliament and former those who were thought to have committed 13 December 1975, but had received no Secretary General of the Nepali Congress acts of violence. reply. Party. He was first imprisoned in 1960 and The International Secretariat has The four lawyers, Dr GENARO adopted by Al in 1968. He was released in requested full details from the Nepalese LEDESMA IZQUIETA, Dr RICARDO 1970 after 10 years' imprisonment. government regarding the release of DIAZ CHAVEZ, JOSE ONA MEONO and After addressing a meeting of the Nepal political prisoners.• ARTURO SALAS RODRIGUEZ, are legal advisors to trade unions currently engaged in serious disputes with the government. for the time being because of the sentence They were taken from their offices on 4 US CLEMENCY passed in connection with the alleged assault December 1975 by members of the Peruvian FOR SOSTRE on the guards. The clemency decision made Investigative Police (PIP). Governor HUGH CAREY of New York State him eligible for parole on the second Al has been informed that a plea of granted executive clemency to the American conviction when the New York Parole Board habeas corpus entered on behalf of the four prisoner of conscience MARTIN SOSTRE on met in January.. was declared inadmissable by the courts 24 December 1975. Martin Sostre was after the Minister of the Interior, General convicted in 1968 on a charge of selling CESAR CAMPOS QUESADA, denied they heroin and sentenced to 30 to 41 years' SOVIET UNION had been detained or that their whereabouts imprisonment. were known by the police. He has always protested his innocence. A/ FREES PLYUSHCH Their detention was only confirmed when took up his case after learning that the key LEONID PLYUSFICH, one of Amnesty a letter, signed by each of them and witness against him had retracted his International's adopted prisoners of describing their situation in detail, was testimony. Before his arrest Martin Sostre conscience in the Soviet Union, was released smuggled from the jungle penal colony El ran the Afro-Asian Bookshop in Buffalo, from the Dnepropetrovsk special psychiatric Sepa and sent to the Peruvian press. They New York, and was known as a black hospital on 8 January at the climax of an reported that they were moved between activist. During his years in prison he intensive international campaign for his three PIP detention centers in Lima in four continued to fight for prisoners' rights. In freedom. He was allowed to leave the USSR days and then, on 9 December 1975, particular he objected to rectal searches, an immediately with his wife, TATYANA transferred in great secrecy by air to the established part of prison routine, which ZHITNIKOVA, and their two sons. remote El Sepa in the Amazon region of resulted in a further conviction for On their arrival outside of the USSR, Mrs Peru. El Sepa is a maximum security assaulting guards at Clinton prison. Plyushch, on behalf of her husband, thanked institution only accessible by military The clemency granted by Governor Carey Al , among other organizations which had aircraft. Reliable sources affirm that no means that Martin Sostre is paroled on the worked for Mr Plyushch's release. She said formal accusation has been made against 1968 heroin charge, but he remains in prison continued on page 2 col I the four men. • 2 Continued rom a e 1 column 2 an audience with President MARIEN AMNESTY IN MALAGASY REPUBLIC SOVIET UNION FREES PLYUSHCH NGOUABI. The Malagasy Republic announced an that she felt the welcome they were given In July 1975, President Ngouabi declared amnesty on 30 December 1975 for all showed the general concern for "all those an amnesty lifting the restrictions still political infractions and crimes committed detained in prison for their opinions" in the imposed on former political prisoners who, before 1 January 1975. This followed a Soviet Union. since a previous general amnesty in November referendum on 21 December 1975 which Leonid Plyushch, a mathematician, was 1973, had been under house arrest or gave a massive public endorsement to the arrested in 1972 on charges of "anti-Soviet working with "production brigades" socialist program of President DIDIER agitation and propaganda" and officially (September 1975 Newsletter). RATSIRAKA. judged to be suffering from "creeping On the final stage of his mission, Mr A small number of AI investigation cases schizophrenia". He had been detained in the Ehrenstrale visited Chad, a country which benefited from the amnesty. Most of them psychiatric hospital since 1973. was the object of a major Al campaign in were originally arrested during April 1973 Mr and Mrs Plyushch have confirmed that January 1975 (February 1975 Newsletter). but had subsequently been released on he was treated with powerful neuroleptic Mr Ehrenstrale met the Chadian Minister of provisional liberty. The amnesty appears to drugs during his detention. Since he left the the Interior, Colonel MAMARI DJIME be intended to ease political tensions in USSR, Leonid Plyushch has been in the care NGAKINAR, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madagascar which reached a crisis point in of several psychiatrists and each has Commandant KAMOUNGOUE WADAL, early 1975 following a mutiny in late 1974 expressed the view that he is not mentally and several other high-ranking government by an elite police unit. • officials. Colonel Ngakinar is also Vice The Plyushch family tr,avelled from the President of the Superior Military Council Al MEMBER IN SOUTH KOREA FREED USSR to Vienna where they arrived on 10 which has ruled Chad since the overthrow AI learned of the release from prison on 18 January. The Austrian Amnesty of the repressive regime of President December 1975 of HAHN SEUNG-HUN, a International national section and the NGARTA TOMBALBAYE in April 1975. leading human rights lawyer and a board International Executive Committee member, Mr Ehrenstrale is preparing a report on his member of the Korea Amnesty International Dr IRMGARD HUTTER, made the mission for Al's International Executive committee. arrangements for their two-day stay in Committee. In general, he said he found a Hahn Seung-Hun was sentenced on 11 Vienna. Among those who met Tatyana positive attitude towards Al in all the September 1975 to 18 months' Zhitnikova was P. JAKOB FORG of the countries he visited, especially in Chad, imprisonment, with 18 months' suspension Austrian Amnesty International group 8 where the human rights situation has of civil rights to follow, after he had been (Linz), one of the Al groups which had improved dramatically since the coup of found guilty of violating the Anti- adopted Leonid Plyushch. April 1975... Communist Law. This was in connection with When the Plyushch family arrived in Al URGES TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO with a collection of his essays first published Paris on 11 January, they were met by RELEASE ELECTION CANDIDATE in 1972. He filed an appeal against his representatives of the French Al national Al Secretary General MARTIN ENNALS sentence which has now been suspended for section and of other organizations which cabled Premier CHIANG CHING-KUO on 18 three years by the Seoul High Court.
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