Kazakhstan's authority arrests Bakythan Abirov, member of Transnational Radical Party and human rights activist. He was sentenced to 10 days of prison only for non-violent civic activity: collecting signatures under petitions for right to refuse to kill and against killing by state - death penalty.

In February 1991 Soviet police arrests and Soviet trials sentences for non-violent demonstrations just like in February 1988, with just the same reasons like in August 1989 in Moscow when dozens of men and women including Soviet and Italian Radicals were detained and clobbered for their non-violent manifestation at 21 anniversary of Prague Spring.

Many people in our country and abroad thoued that such practice was going to the history. But now - after bloodshed in Vilnius, common order of two ministries about patrol, new Gorbachev's decrees - we can see that shadows of the past come back in our life. Renewal of usage of imprisonment for non-violent demonstrations is one of the steps out from democracy, back to the totalitarianism.

Bakythan Abirov is arrested for collecting signatures under petition for rights of conscientious objectors. It gives us right to speak about him as about prisoner for peace.

We appeal to all participants of independent peace movement and non-governmental human rights organizations in the world to defend non-violent struggle for peace, justice and democracy in Soviet Union. Demand release of Bakythan Abirov!

Send your protests to the address:

Main Public Prosecutor of Kazakh SSR

Mira 110, Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR,

Soviet Union.

Nikolaj KHRAMOV, Alexander PRONOZIN, Mamuka TSAGARELI,

members of the Radical Party.