Human rights defender Lyudmila Alexeyeva. (AFP pic)MOSCOW: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who headed the oldest Russian human-rights organisation and was a driving force behind the civil-rights movement in the Soviet Union, has died.
She died Saturday night at a Moscow hospital, according to a statement from the Human Rights Council under Russia’s President. She was 91.
Alexeyeva and other dissidents founded the Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, an agreement that included guarantees of basic freedoms and was intended to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West.
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Source: Free Malaysia Today
