Word: orlov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign outside the dingy, heavily guarded building in southwestern Moscow proclaimed: PEOPLE'S COURT. But what went on inside it last week was a caricature of justice. After four days of carefully rigged proceedings, a panel of three judges handed down the expected verdict: Yuri Orlov, a leading Soviet dissident who had been held incommunicado for more than 15 months, was found guilty of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." The 53-year-old physicist was then sentenced to seven years in a labor camp, to be followed by five years of exile in a remote part of the Soviet...
...Orlov's "crime," in the Kremlin's eyes, was his role in organizing a Moscow committee to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord on European Security and Cooperation. The committee prepared a number of documents, petitions and open addresses charging that "many hundreds" of Soviet citizens were "languishing in prisons and camps [for] political, ethical and religious beliefs." Free emigration and reunification of families, according to Orlov's group, were still being severely hampered, even though these rights were endorsed by the Helsinki accord. Introducing these reports as evidence...
...Orlov's opportunity to defend himself was sharply restricted. John MacDonald, the British lawyer whom Orlov had wanted as his attorney, was not allowed to enter the Soviet Union. In his place, the court appointed Yevgeni Shalman, a Moscow lawyer who, according to MacDonald, has "worked for the KGB for a time." Neither Orlov nor Shalman, moreover, could cross-examine the prosecution's 15 witnesses or call witnesses of their...
...Orlov was arrested more than a year ago after having organized a group to publicize Soviet violations of human rights pledges. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and five years of internal exile...
...petition, signed by 230 professors from 30 different universities, was meant to express sympathy for Orlov, whose only crime was to found an organization to mind human rights, Alan J. Dershowitz '58, professor of Law, said yesterday...