Word: moroz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news conference in New York on Saturday, Moroz said he had often been beaten by prison guards and was kept in solitary confinement in freezing weather for four months last year...
...necessary for beatings to create horrible conditions. Conditions can be created to constitute torture even without physical violence," Moroz said...
...Moroz has been in Soviet prisons almost continually since 1965. After completing a four year term for alleged anti-Soviet activities, he was arrested again in June 1970 after nine months of freedom for writing a series of essays protesting Soviet domination of the Ukraine. His current sentence, five years imprisonment and five years exile, would have extended through...
Along with fellow dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg, Mark Dymshits, George P. Vins and Edward S. Kuznetsov, Moroz was exchanged on Friday for Valdik A. Enger and Rudolf P. Chernyayev, both United Nations employees convicted last year of spying for the Soviet Union and sentenced to 50 years...
...statement read Saturday on behalf of Moroz, Kuznetsov, Ginzburg and Dymshits, the four dissidents said, "yesterday, we were still deprived of all rights; today, we are here in a country which for more than 200 years has been a symbol of freedom...