-----No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2-4-9 ' I' RXB - II NAN RIGHrS RBVIBW 19- zs May 1978 tDIIBT tii1Dl - As a backdJ op to the trials of Yuriy Orlov and Zviad Gallsakburdia in Moscow aacl'lbili si last wet Soviet authorities carried out a number of - 1IMSU1'8S against other dissidents The Soviets preS1JII8bly bapW that ttlil• illtematimal attenticm was focused Cll the trials the other -aa t ·steps would attract little notice These dftelop ents J tR of the psychiatric abuse Dadtoring amaittee JikMndr Podrabinek was arrested an 14 May The inV tigator assigned to the case told Podrebinek' s father that is san ws being investigated for baYing violated Article 190 failure to repent· a crime agabult tha state - of tJae RSPSR crlldnal code JewiSh ''1'8fuseaik'' Iosif Begun was arrested em 14 May aUeiedly fc r Wegall y residing m Moscow He has re edly '1' begm a lmnger strike in protest 0118 Of the leaders of the dissident -workers 1 free trade · 'UiliaQ V Paplavskiy was reportedly tried and sentenced to- ODe year in a labor C8q for V gl BDcy 25X1 RP M-78- 10237 26 May 1978 State Dept review completed - No Objection To 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2-4-9 Declassification · 25X1 -· - - · - - - ··- - - - - · No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC 31 39-2-4-9 r ClRtD' S L dissi Qsl ts staDding vigil outside dtta laad far and cl 1 $sidslts were searc'hecl l tba OrlOV' trial were at least six ts of A Taa artic le in Pravda Gil Z3 May implied that Orlcw as wll as· Sbcharansld y was wrki ng for US intell igsu e services Ia a lS May lecture em inteTDa'tiar¥Jl affairs at tbe Moscow ctory liJere SbcharaD skiy' s brother works Shdlaranskiy was Y referred to as a CIA agent cmfnuaiAL BASTBRN 'JIR E 25X1 - - ovakia I Jth 'ee instances of police Of di8 rter 77 Signatories siJifi iifi4·MaY 'J 't lo of the 4lbaDI'med m the CCUltrysida near Prague 1his is the first lcii0Mllll$ta1Derl use of polic e brutality aga1nst icJmts since the · 77 'IICM IB1t was Udtiated in Jauuary 1977 1he a tists believe that by usjng violence the hopes to prcJVD a 11Jto illegal retaliatory aoves that WDUl d JUke them vulnerable tct legal pTOSeCUtion 'l11ey also see it as a wt1 f of fQrestal ling dissident actiYity duriq the caPiDa visit of Soviet leader ·Brez Dw to Prague A$ the US 'Arbusy suggests the incidents are probably part of an ·overall tiahtming of internal ccm trols in anticipa of increased dissidellt C1 ivity peagec l to the tenth amdversary of the Soviet-leer invuial of Czecbosl aYald a in August Smile Ql az1ists believe their Clll y de£ - against such police tactics is ·W 18tem pablicity and they have ccasequmtly given detailed ts of the recen t beatings to Western newsmen 'lb8y have a lso sent protests 1 0 top Czechoslovak leaders While the beatinp have made the a tists very ·c autiou s about their peTS IJ8 mOvements they have not dissuaded thell frclll issuing a stateamt of solidarity with c onvicted Soviet dJJis t Yuriy orlov CXNIIDENl'IAL · · · -- '1 « doQIJI'fllts preparecl by a small but IM ti rOUP of disJSidents ware TeOIIltlY obtained by ·the US Bahassy in 'I'M group announced the fcmaatian of a ''OWdttee for the Deftue of ReUgioua ana SpiritUal Pl'ee a with thB aim of assisting per$tiUI petaiC'Qtsl f9r l eligious belle 1be docum mts s olicit m - z SBCRBT ORCCN N Obj cti C n To Declassifi tion 2008 04 30 NLC 1 39 2-4-9 • • • '• I No Obje on To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2--4-9 SBCRBr c RXM a ssociatiall1d ZUri c h aa4 qaU • m timal Chris l '· solidarity orpoizatim in for a 4114 to religious persecutim In RQnmi a The C w1 ttee bapas to ptmote ties between Christians in RaDEJia and other camtries • · to public lJe the regime's intolerance toward religion Tba that the of the dnn'Wlts is the first tlme in over a year idaa t 1rottJ has pml icly c halleaged the Tegime en '·f the 1$IU8 ftl freedaa AlthOugh saae DaBbers ctf the· iJ OUP wre brieflT year its leaders apparently CXIltiDue pre cbing without icu Most rec ently pastor Iosif Ton 'Who has been the drivina force 'beaJnd the' DMRmt preached in Bucharest churches m 1 'WaS not harrassed Sc IDe of the religiCQS dissidents howeveT were · reportedly fol'OI4 to apply for passports with the obvious Dlplic a tion that tbe ·t la to lean The us Blllbassy believes that the if i Ssued·-will bear exit visas valid for the US thus forcing to a·a dec isian ccnceming admission of these clissidalts ·reei• - ts ' WBSrERH P1JRC · ·- B Foraian Jlinj sters of the B NJne agreed at their inforsl meetms e11'-fo May to issue a joint stataaent deplol'lng the Soviets' senteaciug of prcaizumt diss t Yuriy Orlw and his colleagues who bad be IIDli the tESR's c aapliance with the Helsinki g%Cf P' t 1M 25X1 stateamt tes released em 24 May · ____ _ ____ - No Objection_To Dec l ssi cation 2008 04130 NLC-31-39-2 4-9 • I • No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLG-31-39-2-4-9 mDl 25X1 T 'J r - 'l'he Turkish Gove mment TeCeDtly granted l'llissicn to Aalesty 0 Iatiiiiiimoaal to open an office in Ankara This deCision is in l1De Wll th th8 pj lk tlmt to Juwn rights made bY the Ecevit gov r allt · In graating the authorization Bcevit may cal aJlate that while a ty• s asses ts of the Turki sh human riahts scene could scadmes be SlbarassiDg be will be able to use them just as often to r Greek of 1uaan rights violatitllS in '1 lrby 1be pr eseac e of the Amnes Intsmatianal office shauld help c lisc au raP ws aga bwt miDorities such as the Greeks liho are ccmcattratecl m Turkey's urban areas Tu rkish treatllent of people such as tbe Kurds who live in remote parts of the c ountl'y will be mre d iffic ult to mnitor '1'be IIDSt serious biNn rights-related problem facing Ecevit however is the st'Nidily i1u reasiDg level of poUtical violence amcentrated mainly rlval pugs of Turk l sh students Ec evit who is opposed to az cm an for both philosophic al and political TeBSOilS has so far tabu a - smect approach to this problem and he will remain llWilling notwitbstW-fna pressure fraa SCJIIe of his advisers to take· S1X h stsps as the imposi tion of n ial law Should violence continue however he fiDel pressure for decisive action Dlpossible to resist cn FIDENTIAL asure -r •• InMdlial 'tatior 1he executive bo Td of the Intematicmal Ccuf'Oderat Cao-ree Ti'8di DnioPs tmllDUIJC8d last Friday in Hsai urg that it wlll fUe a · caapla int against the USSR and Poland with the Intemational Orplli zatica in Geneva It l aU ege that both CDlntries have V10latecl tbe · liD's COIMilti an an workers' freedaD of assoc iati ll 'Which was adopt in 1948 and h'as been ratified by both states 'Ibis ICF'lU km _ • l q after the other smaller Western laboxo grouping the aa-istim-orimtecl World Ccm federaticm of Labor to file a sjmilar owl t nst Soviets for their em dissideats 4 SBCRBT ORati No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC·31-39-2-4-9 • No Objection To DeClassification 2008 04 30 NLC 31M39 2-4 9 I tjll·••ft W HliGN Dnn'MCr OIID' seekizaa to orpaize a trade uaicti not under resi- am trQJ ICFIU Geaen1 Sec rtd ary l'erstell has also served notice that his organ izaticm CLDti _ to expect DD actiCil em its formal yea r old QJ plaint against Czechaslovatla lo7 allepd discrlmiDatory layBBlt practices PIED LATIN NeUCA · The Fcuria Govennmt an 19 May decl aral a state cif ths country because of·wi despreld c i vil unrest aver the anaotiiJICSmt a£ st- p price increases for food staples and gasoline Canstitutim•l guarantees and the publicaticm of all ind ependant magazines· · were As a pnc prior to the nat lc awide general strike an ZZ-Zl May • 'ld bo rities arxeated a score of labor leaders joumalists and leftist palUbw · for the 18 J1m0 canstituen assembly el I _ -1SCIIII8 of those arreste2sx1 will either be S t to e or 1ft thi jungle peaal cclcmy of El Sepa -a i ates A furth8r 800 dsoastrators reportedly were arrested during the s bdreds had previCRJSly been arrested in coanecticm with violent PMtest a utrattcm In the provinc es Sale of the t leaders reportedl y _ be sent to La for incarceration SPi RBT MPORN · - 1 · The recent clecisicn by Ecuador's supreme election 16 July presidential eleQticm hBs ·ftlrtber depleted the ranks of eligible CRP didates Although l ead4m stress the legality of the disquallficat lals their · bas bea to aid goverzJ Bt rtecl candidatu m l sidetTaclc ·most of those libo were not to its lild ng Shauld the remain ng ccn not om accorditlg to the govamment' s expectatians further mterveotiaa il tbe eleatian process cmmot be ml ed out trilulal to z lll8llt ld earlier disqualifications for the Despite the bsisteoce by t leaders and 4M D respeetecl foz r Presidalt Gala Plaza that the election tribunal acted independently and accodis to law ln ruling on the disqualifications there is widespraad susplClca 'l hat SOllie lllil iarr officers are behind the lkJVe sma -s- -- -- No Objection To Declassification - 2008 04 30 NL 31 39-2-4-9 - _ I -- - --- ···- 1 No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2-4-9 Cll«m The cauaes for the failure appear to lie in the military's inx 25 1 ability to - nhal tlie support of local residents as well as rivalry between d ri lian m4 military intelli ce units in tJte field Guerrilla - m t JJl ei r 1 tactiCs include of pl'OIIdnent tJi1j l JlBly kidnaping and axtcrrtian local residalts atJIIId attacks an military illstallations and c anvoys highway · and bank 8Dd lnfiltratian of 8l'JDSd forces and security tmits in tbe SIDBT lllRJlN PAR BAST - lDdclnesia President Suharto is apparently detlmllineci not to allow the iiiiii Of' mwn rights in Inckmesia to jeopa rd i%e cantinuing US military IDl·eamalli c aid en zo May J the Indonesian GovartJDant released · 26_5 poll prisc aers in o•11000raticm of the mmiversar y of the West ·Java Jllil ite ry a••rnd Other small- sc ale symbolic Teleases 18 ' wll ocCur em stsail o rr crative occasicms in CCJQ Ing Dmths as an adjunct to ''the pl•'' • Pissed release of sage ZO OOO political detainees by Dacalber 197t SubartO seems to have· adopted' the idea of· ame frequent releas as of waller gl CqlS of priscmers as a way to •ximize favorable m -rights PJhlicity _ - 6 SB RBT ORCnl - ··-·-·--· No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2-4-9 5IDm' After Vice Pnlsidmt Mzd•Je's visit to Jakarta Subarto reportedly deddell to ralNM 10 000 politial prisoners between August and 8Dd the r aainillllO OOO ·DB't year He has now apparently chanpd his Dd Dd and intclqls to release 5 000 em Indmesia's Indepenaence Day in August IDd IIDqtiler 10 000 before Dec-her 1978 leaviDg ODly s ooo to be rele8secl In 1979 In aaotber apparent mv e to win us approval SUbarto hu wr Gmeral Said eitbet' to release ar quic kly bring to trial peonaas a -w re arrested for dissident activities in the amths before tbe recent natim•l assely session OHliDBNl'IAL -- KOrea IiJI r n suk the Sec retaty GeneTal of the loreall Nat e o n of Clurc hes and a leading critic Qf the Pak t lias· sst a letter to Presidmt Carter chai'g1Dg that the lual r lghb situat ica in South Korea is far worse than ''pa iJlic reporting'' inclicates 11Je l ettet wams that repression by the govet Dent is ree ching a dqerous point a that without real ts tllere is bouDd to be a serious social crisis lCiJa voices disappointment over what he sees as US SU iport for the Palt aover amaDt adding that the US Gavemaent thus shares respmsibillty for· violation of Jwllm rightS in South rarea CitiDg South Vietul's axPerimce as an example Kim expressed canc em that South rona's alleged disrega td of human rights will also lead to its- interzatimal isolatiaa I im' s l-etter lch was passed to the us sy in Seoul and has been brought to the US by a Jlellber of Dr Brzezirulld' s party reflects tbt frustrati ll that South Korea's lu Ban rights activists have increasingly aperleocei over the past year Their cause has lost 111 mentta at heme while the ts f the Pak gtMmllll llt to improve its IJIHa abroad have Dllde substatial gains CXRIDBNTIAL APIUCA I'a z SIAPO Andreas Shipanga the former Minister of Info tica f SOiith·West Africa People 1 s Orpnization and 11 othet dis SlrAPO mem118l'S were released freD detenticm in TsnMD a 25 May · Tho Tez• aqs also' released seven -m eTS of other southem Afr U In Ubere ticll g l 'O 9S All but cme of the SWAPO lDI IIIDers were flawn cliftictl y to llq'ape 'lbe' British t has agreed to grant Sbipanga cal asyl- mst of tbe o SWAPO Dlllllbers are destiud for • Dea•• rk ·Ncmtay or the us ·011 No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2-4-9 ' •· • _ - # No Objection To Declassification 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2-4-9 uu l' lot6 YIUif tUDll'RACr lml The dac isicD by Tanzani D Pres i dsrt Nyerere to release the deta - partly in respcme to pressure fran internaticmal mwn risbts argatwtians iDC nding Janesty Jntcmultional lJl addition tba Western fi J ICJMI l' ctlltact group t s proposals an Namibia cal 1 for the release of all Na ibim politicaJ prismers held outside the territory SIAPO lllldtm· in Mald bia have already cited tba Tanvmian 'release in SoudL Aiiic a to free SlfAPO iiiSbers beld in its priscm urr ma SWAPO leaderS JbjCJD bad earlier apposed Shipanga's releaSe possibly because be fear SbipaDp could DDm t a serious c hal l qe to his leadsrship SelBe black Naaibian political leaders may uk Sbipanga to l'8t lJXn to Nald bia to help lead a ax erate political coalition Sbipanaa lal lwc tr may fear that if he returns he llight be arrested by South Afii c a' autborities or assass tnatecl by adherents of NujOBB SIDBI' HiaN l •• • • Presidal Ali SoUih the leftist le8der of the India Oceii Ublic of the Caaoros was OV8l thrawn in a c aup cm 13 May Soilih's anti-religious policies--he cutl awed the wearing of wlls by 'm public prohibited elaborate weddings and feasts that had ·a· cantury-old traditicn in the Camros--cansed a great of di t emtlllt the islands t predominantly Mosl• populaticm The n ev gcmmaeet is pledged to restore religious freedaa 1 hrougbout tbe islands t the populaticn seas to be relieved and pleased tbat SoU ih is 110 _l alpr power aHIDBNll AL a m- I ' ______ • No Objection To __ Declassiflca on 2008 04 30 NLC-31-39-2-4-9