IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

USSR: Harshsentences in frame up trial

Socialist Challenge No. 6, 14 July 1977 · p. 12 of the scan · 185 words

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page 12 of the scan

Mykola tence because of his bad and sick, it Isa life sentence Jockeys Field. the Soviet regime. THE secret court in the little towa of Deuchkovka has reached it Oleksa Tychy, Cikrainian buman rights campaigners charged with • anti-Somet activaty, have boc sentenced to seven years in jail and five years exile, and ten years and For Rudenko thisisa death sensend on a hit bad pay war wounds. For Tykhy, aged 50 anc had to They have repcatedly pointed our that their only crime was to campaigo for the implementation af the Helsinki accords sRico D According Pyotr and Zinaida Grigorenko In Moscow confirmed the details Delence of Soviet Political Pri soners. Friends and relatives of the defendeots. including the Gritor enkos, only heard about the trial days after it had started. Some TILIAN BUCHANCE NAUOLL three days by the militin when they arrived in Drushkovka.

detendant had ans legal representation. refused to accept the officially appointed lawyer and defend himself, •WILLE Rudenko was saddied with advocate who coopcrated full with the prosecution.

Zinaida Criporenko: The authorities vialated both juridical and human rightsatthistrial."

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