Religious Minorities in Soviet and and Post-Soviet Ukraine

[Frans Suasso]

I would suggest that you contact the Keston Institute in Oxford Uk. They are 
the specialists on the persecution of religious minorities in the USSR.
Here is a link
http://www.keston.org.uk/index.shtml

Good luck.

Dr. Frans Suasso, Naarden the Netherlands

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Luloff" <gluloff at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Religious Minorities in Soviet and and Post-Soviet 
Ukraine


>I am currently representing a 56 year-old Ukrainian male in asylum
> proceedingss.  He entered the United States as a refugee in the early 
> 1990s.
> My client's family members were all Pentecostal Christians, and he was 
> placed
> in an orphanage at a young age and then subjected to a series of 
> involuntary
> psychiatric commitments as an adult.  Currently, my client is in 
> deportation
> proceedings, and I am looking for documentation showing (1) that Soviet
> authorities used involuntary psychiatric treatment to persecute religious
> minorities; and (2) that persecution of religious minorities still 
> continued in
> post-Soviet Ukraine.  Also, any documents discussing Soviet persecution of
> Pentecostal Christians in general would be very helpful.
>
> If anyone has any expertise in this area I would greatly appreciate your
> insights.
>
> Thank you,
> Greg
>
> gluloff at hotmail.com
>
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