Prisoners of an old regime ♣ Marjorie Farquharson ♣ (July 2000) When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in previous decades seemed to be merely a dry-run. Zviad Gamsakhurdia became Georgia’s first freely-elected President after the Soviet Union collapsed, with a mandate to … Continue reading “The freight and the groove” (2000)
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In the Prisons and Camps (42.4)
<<No 42 : 8 October 1976>> A Visit to Mustafa Dzhemilev MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV has been sent to the Far East to serve his sentence (CCE 40.3). His address is: 692710, Primorsky Region, Khasansky district, Primorsk rail station, PO Box 267/26. This district is part of the border zone, so that it can only be visited … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps (42.4)
In Defence of Mustafa Dzhemilev (39.7)
<<No 39 : 12 March 1976>> On 25 December [1975], eight days after the trial in Omsk was postponed because of the judge's sudden illness (CCE 38.14), the case of MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV was transferred to the Supreme Court of the RSFSR. Mustafa's family were informed of this by the Omsk Region Court over the telephone … Continue reading In Defence of Mustafa Dzhemilev (39.7)
The Trial of Mustafa Dzhemilev [14-15 April 1976] (40.3)
<<No 40 : 20 May 1976>> MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV (Abduldzhemil) was born in November 1943. During the deportation of May 1944, his family – his mother and her four children (his father was at the front) – ended up in Uzbekistan. In 1966 Mustafa was expelled from the third-year course of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation … Continue reading The Trial of Mustafa Dzhemilev [14-15 April 1976] (40.3)
Mustafa Dzhemilev Continues his Hunger Strike (38.14)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV has managed to send a letter to a friend from the pre-trial detention centre in Omsk [Siberia]. He writes: On the whole things are much the same with me. On 18 August I was examined by the doctors; their observations were as follows: pulse 57, temperature 35.5° … Continue reading Mustafa Dzhemilev Continues his Hunger Strike (38.14)
37.1 Mustafa Dzhemilev has not been freed
No 37 : 30 September 1975 On 19 June 1975, three days before the end of Mustafa Dzhemilev’s one-year term of imprisonment “for ignoring a summons for military service” (CCE 32.9 and 33), a fresh charge was brought against him under Article 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. Mustafa Dzhemilev declared a hunger strike. On … Continue reading 37.1 Mustafa Dzhemilev has not been freed
16.10 News in brief
No 16 : 31 October 1970 1. On 12 September 1970 Yuly Markovich Daniel was released from Vladimir Prison [Central Russia] on completion of his term. He was sent to live in Kaluga, where he has been placed under surveillance. He was allowed to visit his wife L. Bogoraz in her place of exile [Irkutsk … Continue reading 16.10 News in brief
