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...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Moscow last week suddenly issued a chilling announcement. It said that Anatoli Shcharansky, 30, a computer expert and Jewish human rights activist who has been accused of spying for the CIA, would stand trial in Moscow early this week on a charge of high treason. If found guilty, he could be executed. On the same day that Shcharansky's trial starts, court proceedings also begin against another Jewish dissident, Alexander Ginzburg, 41, a leading member of a Russian group founded to monitor the U.S.S.R.'s compliance with the human rights provisions...
...final analysis, my newspapers were banned not because they committed any treason, but because they told the truth." Qoboza, who was in Boston to give an informal seminar for the Nieman Foundation and to receive an honorary degree at Tufts University, said...
Qoboza said he was never informed exactly what treason the government believed he had committed...
...society. Not only are non-whites denied almost all rights, many of these rights are denied to whites as well. The government can use fear of the "natives" to gain a mandate for repressive actions. For example, a friend's father--a white, South African lawyer--was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years. His crime: circulating a petition among white voters which asked for the liberalization of apartheid, and planning a peaceful rally consisting of liberal whites. Television was not allowed until 1975 because of its "unwholesome influence." It is now permitted to operate two hours per evening...
...compliance with the Helsinki agreements on human rights. In the past 14 months 22 members of these groups have been arrested. Among the most notable are Physicist Yuri Orlov and Writer Alexander Ginzburg. who are charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Computer Specialist Anatoli Shcharansky is accused of treason...