NORTH SHORE Amnesty
International is taking part
in a three-month worldwide
campaign urging the gov-
ernment of Yugoslavia to
stop arresting people for
non-violent political activi-
ties, private writings and
personal conversations.

The government’s own
statistics indicate that 2,208
people, an average of more
than 540 a year, were ar-
rested for “political of-
fences’? between 1980 and
1983, the last year for which
figures have been released.

in a new report, published
at the end of May, Amnesty
International says it has
adopted more than 200 of
these people still behind bars
as prisoners of conscience.

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Group 94 is just one of
several groups around the
world campaigning for the
release sf one such detainee.

For almost a year now
members of Group 94, under
the guidance of Adopted
Prisoner coordinators Lois
and George Graham-Cumm-
ing have been writing letters
to officials in many levels of
the Yugoslavian government
asking for the release of
Edhem Bicakcic, a prisoner
of conscience: sentenced in
1983 for advocating a
religious revival and the
general improvement of
conditions within the coun-
try for fellow Muslims.

His views were interpreted
as being hostile and
**counter-revolutionary’’.

That his sentence has been
reduced twice in the past two
years would seem to indicate
that the government itself
has some doubts about the
validity of its case.

Group 94’s adopted pris-
oner is typical of the many
Yugoslav prisoners of con-
science who have been ar-
rested over the past few
years from amongst the
country’s ethnic groups
which include Croats, Alba-
nians, Serbs and Muslims.

The international human
rights organization’s report
states that many of these
people have been imprisoned
for “‘hostile propaganda”’ on
the basis of private conver-
sations and letters, films and
pamphlets they have pro-

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duced and interviews given
to foreign journalists.

Group 94. chairperson
Judith Clarke says, **Others
have been convicted for br-
inging journals into the
country, and some Yugosla-
vians who travelled abroad
have been arrested on their
return merely for talking to

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49 - Wednesday, June 19, 1985 - North Shore News

N. Shore amnesty group speaks out

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At Lynn Valley Mall on
Saturday, June 22, Amnesty
International members from
Group 4 will be manning an
information table, collecting
names on petitions, and
writing letters on behalf of
their own and other
Yugoslavian prisoners of

conscience.

The group will be offering
literature and = answering
questions anticipating that
other members of the public
may wish to become involv-
ed in Amnesty’s work for
human rights issues in
Yugoslavia and around the
world.

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