USSR: Appeal for Mustafa Jemilev

APPEAL MUSTAFA JEMILEV: active fighter for the right of the Crimean Tatar people to return to their homeland. MUSTAFA JEMILEV: member of the Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR. MUSTAFA JEMILEV: in prison, on hunger strike to protest against new Frame-up charges. Mustafa Jemiley was born in 1943 in the Crimean village of Boskai. He was not yet one year old when the Crimean Tatar people were driven out of their native land. They were given not more than twenty minutes to get ready. They were transported in sealed freightcars, without food, drink, or air. They were all put together, the living and the dead. Nearly half the people died during the long voyage and the first few months of their deportation in an inhospitable desert location. Mustafa Jemilev is an active militant of the peaceful movement of the Crimean Tatar people to return to their Crimean homeland. Since becoming a militant, he has been the victim of daily persecution by the Soviet odministration. The "material" used to justify this persecution is, according to all evidence, lies; the accusations are false. In 1966 and 1967 Jemilev was sentenced to a year and a half deprivation of liberty on charges of "refusing compulsory military service, *but in reality because he wanted to return to Crime with his people. In 1969-72 he suffered three years' deprivation of liberty on charges of "spreading lying theories slandering the Soviet government and social system, * but in reality for having tried to be received by the Soviet government administration in order to deliver a petition asking for the return of the Tatars to Crimea. The latest arrest For "hooliganism, " on May 13, 1974, took place after an unsuccessful attempt to draw Mustafa Jemiley into a scuffle; it was a preventive measure taken on the occasior of the thirtieth anniversary of the exile of the Tatar people. To protest this illegal arrest Mustafa Jemiley went on hunger strike and was released on the ninth day. On June 22, 1974, Mustafa Jemiley was arrested on charges of "refusing to participate in a recall of military service, " but in reality because of his tenacious desire to recover their lost homeland for himself and his people. Mustafa's parents, already aged and in despair, have addressed themselves to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and also to fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and to the parliaments and governments of all countries. They asked A. N. Podgorny to release their son from the USSR and asked the governments of other countries to grant asylum to their constantly persecuted son. In order to protest against such an illegal condemnation (he should have been excused from military obligations for reasons of health, Mustafa himself began a long hunger strike. Nevertheless, he was condemned to one year's deprivation of liberty and sent to a camp in Omsk. Intense activity by the KGB and the camp administration was soon organized against Mustafa, most probably in order to prepare "material" for a new lying accusation, It is known that the organs of justice often launch a "case" and judge a man not for a crime that has been committed but as a prophylactic measure, on the simple presumption that such an individual represents a potential threat to Soviet ideology. This, for example, is how "cases" were made up out of whole cloth against Anatoli: Marchenko, Andrei Amalrik, Vladimir Dremlyuga, and Leon Ubogko, who were detained on the basis of false testimony, obtained under duress, from their fellow detainees. Vladimir Dremiyuga was threatened with a third term; he paid for his release with an article of contrition in the magazine Soviet Yakuty. On June 19, 1975, three days before the end of his term, a new accusation was announced against Mustafa Jemilev, once again for "spreading slanders. " He was thrown into prison, his "case" was presided over by Gusselnikova, a judge from the Omsk prosecutor's office. In order to fabricate this new "case, " the functionaries of the state security organs counted on using Vladimir Dvorianski, a co-detainee of Mustafa Jemilev. But he refused to play along with the provocateurs and traitors; he drafted an account of his conversation with a representative of the administration and entitled it "deposition." False testimony, lying accusations, lies of prosecutors. Sentences that rest only on lies. This whole arsenal of lies in order to force Mustafa Jemiley to keep quiet, to force us all to forget the truth, the truth about the deportation of an entire people, and to prevent this people from returning to their

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DEFEND MUSTAFA JEMILEV!

BAR THE WAY OF THIS NEW INJUSTICE!

Mustafa Jemiley has begun a hunger strike in protest against these notoriously lying accusations. The suffer-

July 9, 1975 ings of an entire people cannot be consigned to oblivion! There is no compromising with lies! We cannot

T. Chodorovich let a man die!

M. Landa

G. Podiapolski

That is why we are protesting against the notoriously

A. Grigorenko false accusations against Mustafa Jemiley, why we are

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