Word: mykhaylenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter was an appeal for the release of Hanna Mykhaylenko, a Soviet librarian from Odessa who was arrested in 1980 for advocating the right of Ukrainians to use their native language. She was declared insane and confined in a maximum security psychiatric hospital...
...said that the Amnesty group in Cambridge has been working on Mykhaylenko's case for seven years. Fuchs said they have written thousands of letters about her. Their interest may have helped to prevent the Soviet government from administering powerful neuroleptic drugs--which he said are often given to Soviet psychiatric patients--to Mykhaylenko, he said...
...Mykhaylenko was recently moved to a lighter security psychiatric hospital in her hometown, Fuchs said...
...people keep bugging [Gorbachev] about this woman [Mykhaylenko] he might just release her," Nelson said...
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