If anything. the change has been for the worse. The treatment of dissidents is more brutalbeatings and solitary confinement are commonplaceand the charges ever more spurious and outlandish. Within the past weeks Roald Zelichonok of Leningrad. after corresponding with public officials In the West. was convicted of "defaming the Soviet state" and sentenced to three years in labor camp. After applying for permission to emigrate. cardiologist Vladimir Broadsky of Moscow was convicted of "hooliganism" and sentenced to three years in prison. For appealing her husbands conviction on trumped up drug and weapon charges. Lydia Koifman was ordered confined to a mental hospital.
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