In January 1959. he was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp and 3 years of internal exile for sending photographs of Estonia to the West. Released in 1966. he was unable to pursue his career. working first as a laborer and subsequently as a teacher of foreign languages. In 1975 a new period of harassment and imprisonment began. Dismissed from his job in 1979. he sought unsuccessfully to emigrate to join relatives in Sweden in 1980. Formally tried in January 1981. Mart Niklus was found guilty of antiSoviet agitation and propaganda and sentenced to 10 years in a special regime hard labor camp and 5 years internal exile.
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