See below.

See below.

Amnesty International is concerned that Sergey Boldyrev may face imminent execution. According to a report in the Soviet newspaper Sovetskaya Kuban in June 1990, Sergey Boldyrev was tried at the Krasnodar Territorial Court at an assize session in the city of Maykop as a leader of an armed gang...

Amnesty International is concerned that Mikhail Tyrnikov may face imminent execution. According to unofficial sources he was convicted in October 1989 by the Maykopsky court of the Adygeysky Autonomous Region of the Russian Federation of the murder of three elderly women. The sentence was upheld on...

Amnesty International is concerned that 32-year-old Vyacheslav Sharayevsky, who is under sentence of death in the Russian Federation (RSFSR), may face imminent execution.

Amnesty International is concerned that 24-year-old Nikolay Kovalyov, who is under sentence of death in the Russian Federation (RSFSR), may face imminent execution.

Amnesty International has learned that the death sentence passed on Sergey Sharapov has been commuted. His sentence was one of 24 death sentences commuted by Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, on 14 September 1991.

Amnesty International is concerned that V. Dzyabura, A. Maevsky and V. Kozachka may face imminent execution. On 29 October the Soviet daily newspaper Izvestiya reported that these three men were sentenced to death on 11 June 1991 by a military tribunal in the Odessa military district in the...

Amnesty International is concerned that 37-year-old Vadim Kuvshinov may face imminent execution. Vadim Kuvshinov, who is being held in Butyrka prison in Moscow, was sentenced to death on 1 December 1989. He was convicted of stabbing two people to death, after breaking into their apartments, but...

Amnesty International is concerned at allegations that political prisoner Dzhaba Ioselliani, held in pre-trial detention in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, has been denied access to a defence lawyer of his own choice. The organization fears that this may adversely affect his right to a fair trial.

Amnesty International has learned that the sentence passed against 24-year-old Andrey Zapevalov has been commuted to 20 years’ imprisonment. The decision to commute his sentence was taken on 30 April. Andrey Zapevalov is being sent to a special regime camp outside the city of Sverdlovsk.

On 18 February the procuracy of the Lithuanian republic released further information on a man who died of a heart attack during the events of 13 January 1991 in Vilnius, in which reportedly peaceful unarmed demonstrators were killed by Soviet troops. It is now known that Alvidas Matulka suffered a...