CASE OF VADIM HESSE,

A RADICAL MEMBER ARRESTED FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION,

AND ISSUE OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN RUSSIA

NEWS CONFERENCE OF ANTIMILITARIST RADICAL ASSOCIATION

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 3.00 PM

RUSSIAN AMERICAN PRESS & INFORMATION CENTER

(Hlebnyj per. 2/3)

In the news conference will be participating:

- Nikolaj KHRAMOV, secretary of Antimilitarist Radical

Association (ARA);

- Sergej SOROKIN, member of ARA, president of Movement Against

Violence, public defender on many trials on conscientious

objection cases;

- Miroslava DAVYDOVSKAJA, Vadim Hesse's lawyer, member of

Noginsk City Lawyers' Guild;

- Iljja ZANEGIN, a conscientious objector, member of ARA.

For more information:

Tel/fax +7-095-9239127

E-mail: ara@glasnet.ru