Helsinki Accords Research Articles

Reviews

The International Sakharov Hearing edited by Marta Harasowska and Orest Olhovych. Smoloskyp Publishers, Baltimore, Toronto, 1977, 335 pp., no index, $8.95. Basket III: Implementation of the Helsinki Accords (Hearing before the Commission on Security and Co‐operation in Europe, Ninety‐Fifth [US] Congress, Second Session on the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords) Vol. VII, Repercussions of the Trials of the Helsinki Monitors in the USSR, 11 July, 1978, US Government Printing Office, 1978, 112 pp., $2.50. Alarm and Hope by Andrei D. Sakharov, edited by Efrim Yankelevich and Alfred Friendly, Jr, Collins and Harvill Press, London, 1979, xix + 200 pp., hardback £5.50. A Captive of Time—My Years with Pasternak by Olga Ivinskaya. Translated by Max Hayward, Harvill Press, 1978, 488 pp., £7.50. (Russian text: U Vremeni v Plenu, Fayard, Paris, 1978.)

Human Rights, International Law & the Helsinki Accord. Edited by Thomas Buergenthal, assisted by Judith R. Hall, and published under the auspices of the American Society of International Law. Montclair: Allanheld, Osmun & Co.; New York: Universe Books, 1977. Pp. viii, 203. Index. $17; special price for ASIL members, $13.50.

Human Rights, International Law & the Helsinki Accord. Edited by Thomas Buergenthal, assisted by Judith R. Hall, and published under the auspices of the American Society of International Law. Montclair: Allanheld, Osmun & Co.; New York: Universe Books, 1977. Pp. viii, 203. Index. 13.50. - Volume 73 Issue 3

Human Rights, International Law and the Helsinki Accord

Human Rights, International Law and the Helsinki Accord

Armenians Insist on the Realization of the Helsinki Accords

Armenians Insist on the Realization of the Helsinki Accords

The Orlov tribunal

On 12 May, 1976, Professor Yuri Orlov, a Soviet physicist, founded a Group to Promote the Observance of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR. This was the first of many such similar groups in Eastern Europe and had nine members to begin with. On the day of its foundation, Professor Orlov was warned by representatives of the KGB that his action was unconstitutional and illegal, but no evidence was offered to support this accusation. In the course of the following year the Group issued 19 major reports on violations of the Helsinki Accord in the Soviet Union, and on 10 February, 1977, Professor Orlov was arrested on unspecified charges. In May 1977, Professor Orlov's wife retained the English barrister, Mr John Macdonald, to act as her husband's defence lawyer, but Macdonald was refused a visa to enter the Soviet Union. He then hit upon the idea of conducting his case for the defence of Orlov in the form of a special tribunal, at which evidence was heard from several dozen expert witnesses, including some former members of the Helsinki Group now in the West. The tribunal was held at the Institute of Physics in Belgrave Square, London, on Monday 13 June, and the evidence subsequently transcribed and submitted to the Soviet courts for consideration. What follows here is a condensed selection of some of the testimony that was offered.