Conference on Security and Co-Operation in Europe (CSCE): Conference on Security and Co-Operation in Europe: Dissidents

A file of documents concerning dissidents. Subjects discussed in the file include the imprisonment of nationalist dissidents in Yugoslavia; religious persecution in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Soviet Union; the trial of members of the Confederation of Independent Poland; the Polish Solidarity movement's response to dissidents; anti-state publications produced by Solidarity; the activities of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia; the establishment of a Free Trade Union in Romania; and the use of psychiatry against dissidents in Romania. Other subjects discussed in the file include K.G.B. activity against Soviet dissidents; the repression of Helsinki Final Act monitoring groups in the Soviet Union; Jewish, Armenian, and German emigration from the Soviet Union; a hunger strike undertaken by the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov in order to secure an exit visa for his step-daughter-in-law; and the Western response to the Soviet treatment of Sakharov. Documents in the file include a European Economic Community statement on Sakharov.