Soviet Union: Is it still plausible that persons can be sent to work camps if their ideas are contrary to those of the communists?
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 May 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | SUN5613 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Soviet Union: Is it still plausible that persons can be sent to work camps if their ideas are contrary to those of the communists?, 1 May 1990, SUN5613, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac2f5c.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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The IRBDC has no information currently available on whether persons are still being sent to work camps for the expression of ideas contrary to those of the communist party. According to the attached report on the draft principles of Soviet criminal legislation which were published in December 1988, the new legislation will rename the "suspended sentence of imprisonment with mandatory induction of the convicted person to labour" to "restriction of freedom". Those who are sentenced to "restriction of freedom" will be required to work at the place to which they are sent but they will not be locked up in camps or prisons. [ Julia Wishnevsky, "Draft Principles of Soviet Criminal Legislation Published", RFE/RL Report on the USSR, Vol. 1, No. 2, 13 January 1989, p. 2.]
To date, the IRBDC has no information on the status of the draft principles.