Call for women’s freedom
PA Wellington Four Wellington women from Amnesty International yesterday presented a Soviet Embassy representative with a letter calling for the unconditional freedom of a Soviet woman prisoner. Sofya Belyak, aged-32, is serving a five-year sentence in a corrective labour colony. She was convicted on charges of conducting anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda through alleged links with the Polish Solidarity trade union, said an Amnesty member, Ms Sarah Cox. Belyak was also convicted on charges of engaging in anti-social religious activity by trying to convert young people to Roman Catholicism. A letter calling: for an immediate review of her sentence and unconditional release was given to an embassy representative, Mr Alexander Ignatov. He said he would pass it to the Soviet Ambassador and to Ukrainian officials, Ms Cox said. The women’s action marked Amnesty’s women prisoners of conscience day and international working women’s day on Sunday. <
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