Volume 24, Number 2 · February 17, 1977

An Appeal for Vasyl Fedorenko

By Leonid Plyushch, Vladimir Bukovsky

On January 17, 1977, we were informed by dissidents in Moscow that Ukrainian political prisoner Vasyl Petrovych Fedorenko, who has been on a hunger strike since December 10, 1975, was driven by the cruel treatment of the Vladimir Prison administrators to make an attempt to end his life by self-immolation.



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