Plea to West on Soviet 'Mad-House' Jails
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sane, he spent a year and a half in the Leningrad prison-hospital. In December, 1965, he organized a demonstration of 200 people in Moscow which demanded an open trial?under the banner "Respect the Constitution"?for the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuly Daniel. For this he was again arrested, and held in the Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry. The next summer?in Mr. Bukovsky's words?"a representative of Amnesty International arrived in Moscow and, as I learnt afterwards, threatened to carry out an inquiry into the affair. After that, in August, 1966. I was released without any explanation". In January, 1967, he organized another demonstration in defence of
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