Heiki Ahonen. a 27year old engineer. was temporarily interned in a Tallinn polyclinic in connection with his attempts to organize strikes in Estonia. Arvo Pesti. a 27year old philologist. was expelled from Tartu University in 1979. for his alleged involvement with the Poolpaevaleht. an Estonian underground publication. Lagle Parek. a 42year old architect. whose father was shot by the Soviets in 1941. was herself deported to Siberia in 1949 at the age of eight. There she. along with her mother. 71year old grandmother and her 18year old sister (Heiki Ahonens mother). was forced to work in the forests at Novosibirsk in Siberia for six years. For their "crime" of signing an "antiSoviet" document calling for peace and disarmament.
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