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11 results found for '"Internment camps"' in Keywords.
Soviet dissident trials (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
John Macdonald, human rights lawyer, on the illegality of Soviet dissident trials. One of the men being tried is seriously ill and would die if sent to a gulag. Previous trials were not run fairly and it...
Efforts to get Anatoly Shcharansky released (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a Soviet woman (his wife Avital Sharansky?) on the condition of Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky (Anatoly Shcharansky) who is being held in a Siberian labour camp and the efforts being made...
Campaign to free Anatoly Shcharansky (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the moving of political prisoner, Soviet Anatoly Shcharansky (Natan Sharansky), from a prison to a labour camp in the Soviet Union, and his wife Avital Sharansky’s trip to London to gather...
Anatoly Shcharansky on labour camps and human rights (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report on press conference in Jerusalem by Anatoly Shcharansky aka Natan Sharansky, released from Russia in an East-West spy swap deal, covering how he coped in labour camp and how the USA may be able to get...
Russian exile describes labour camps (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya speaks (via an interpreter) at a press conference a week after her arrival in London, on her treatment at a labour camp. Male reporter commenting on press conference not...
Death of Major Pat Reid (1990)
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- Interview; News report; Obituary
Report following the death on 22 May 1990 of Major Pat Reid - author of The Colditz Story and one of the few prisoners to escape from the German high security POW camp. He became famous after publishing his...
Major Pat Reid on life in Colditz (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Major Pat Reid, a British prisoner of war held captive at Colditz Castle during the Second World War. The Imperial War Museum, London played host to the reunion of veterans with the Queen...
US POW camp in Gulf war (1991)
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- Interview; News report
Report by US reporter Greg Lamont from a POW camp run by the 82nd Airborne on how Iraqi prisoners of the Gulf war will be processed and kept. Includes soldiers describing the procedure.
Developments in Yugoslav war (1992)
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- News report; Speech
Paul Woodley reports from New York on the announcement by the United Nations it is suspending humanitarian supplies into Sarajevo for at least three days because of worsening attacks on the local airport...
Kuwaiti ambassador on hostages still in Iraq (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Angela Rippon interviews the Kuwaiti ambassador to the UK, Ghazi Al-Rayes, about hostages held in Iraqi jails and camps more than a year after the end of the Gulf War. He also speaks about the possibility of...