Mikhail Kukubaka has already spent 6 years in psychiatric confinement in the U.S.S.R.-from 1969 to 1976for openly refusing to participate in Soviet elections. for writing letters of protest against injustice in the Soviet system. and for acquainting his fellow Soviet citizens with the provisions of the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Following his release. Kukubaka renounced his Soviet citizenship and requested permission to emigrate to any free country. Then. in 1979. he was sentenced to 3 years of prison for such alleged crimes as writing and disseminating his essays "Human Rights and detente Are Indivisible". and "The Stolen Fatherland." along with other articles dealing with human rights violations in the Soviet Union and in Kukubakas homeland. Bielorussia.
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