Amnesty reports
Sir,—Amnesty International welcomes any relevant information from any source. We look forward to M. Creel’s information regarding Soviet dissidents in psychiatric hospitals being verified. Regarding credibility and anonymity, Amnesty International (Soviet section) relies primarily on sources: (1)
Accounts by prisoners, relatives or friends verifiable initially by testimony; and (2) officially published texts and articles of law. These laws cover, for example, “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda,” “treason in the form of flight abroad” and decrees “on religious associations” (forbidding congregations to organise religious studies, and meetings for. women and minors). Violations incur terms of up to 15 years and exile with confiscation of property and, in some cases, commitment to a psychiatric hospital. The laws violate human rights standards which M. Creel takes for granted. Under such laws M. Creel would protect his source. No-one would trust him if he did not. — Yours, etc., LYN SPLINTER, Group 8, Amnesty International. October 20, 1986.
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