Word: podrabinek
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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Thus in a single week Soviet authorities had managed to dispose of three more notable dissidents. Of 38 founding members of the Helsinki Watch Committees, 17 are now in prison, while seven have emigrated or been exiled. Yet another trial is expected soon. The defendant will be Alexander Podrabinek, 24, who has devoted himself exclusively to one aspect of the human rights movement: the plight of dissenters who have been imprisoned in KGB-run mental institutions where beatings and the injection of painful and dangerous drugs are commonplace...
...author of an underground book on psychiatric abuse called Punitive Medicine, Podrabinek was arrested last May on a charge of "distributing false fabrications defaming the Soviet state and social structure." Last week a Podrabinek defense committee met in London to hold a "defense hearing" with ten witnesses who will not be allowed to testify at his trial...
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