State Department. Last December. losif Berenshtein of Kiev was sentenced to four years in prison for allegedly "resisting arrest." He was placed in an isolation cell with two hardcore criminals who assaulted him with broken glass. blinding him in one eye. Irlna Ratushinskaya. a Ukranian poet. was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor for joining human rights demonstrations and attempting to emigrate. According to Catherine Cosman. a member of the Helsinki Commission which monitors compliance with the Final Act. 3 leading Ukrainian dissidents have died in the last yearYuri Litvin. Valery Marchenko. and Oleksy Tykhtyall of them Im. prisoned for their human rights activities.
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