Sofja Wassiljewna Kallistratowa

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Sofya Vasilyevna Kallistratowa ( Russian Софья Васильевна Каллистратова ; born September 6, jul. / 19th September  1907 greg. In Rylsk , † 5. December 1989 in Moscow ) was a Soviet lawyer and human rights activist .

Life

Kallistratowa came from a family of lawyers and lived in Moscow from 1925. She studied at the Law - Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU) with completion in 1930 and has worked since then as a lawyer.

From 1943 to 1976, Kalistratova was a lawyer in the Moscow Bar College. She has participated in a variety of lawsuits. This included both criminal trials and political trials . She defended samizdat - authors , Otkasniks and Crimean Tatars . She defended in particular Viktor Chaustow, the poet Vadim Delaunay (son of the physicist Nikolai Borissowitsch Delone and grandson of the mathematician Boris Nikolajewitsch Delone ), I. Jachimowitsch, the dissident and human rights activist Pyotr Grigorjewitsch Grigorenko and the poet and human rights activist Natalja Evorbangenevskaya . Kallistratova's speeches were circulated in samizdat. Only a few lawyers like Kallistratova and Dina Issaakovna Kaminskaya took on the actually pointless defense work in such political trials, because the judgments were already certain before the trials. Juli Tschersanowitsch Kim dedicated the lawyer waltz to them .

After some political trials, the KGB investigated Kalistratova. Her relatives 'and friends' homes were ransacked, and documents, tapes , cassettes, and typewriters were confiscated. A criminal case for disseminating false statements about the state has been initiated. In 1984 the case was discontinued due to her age and health. However, she insisted on a verdict to prove her innocence. In 1988 the Moscow Public Prosecutor's Office overturned the 1984 order and dropped the case for lack of criminal offenses.

The book about the protector Sofja Kallistratova (1997)

Kallistratowa worked with Valery Nikolayevich Chalidze and Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov in the Moscow Committee for Human Rights in the USSR . She wrote letters in support of fellow citizens whom she believed were innocent. She wrote an open letter in support of Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky . Kallistratova's motion in the Pyotr Grigoryevich Grigorenko case was among the documents that revealed the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union and which Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky sent to Western psychiatrists for announcement at the 1977 Congress of the World Psychiatric Association in Honolulu . A resolution condemning the abuse of psychiatry was then passed in Congress.

Kallistratowa worked in the Moscow Helsinki Group and in the working committee founded there in 1977 on the initiative of Alexander Pinchossowitsch Podrabinek to investigate the use of psychiatry for political purposes. These included the Moscow Vyacheslav Ivanovich Bachmin , Irina Kaplun, Alexander Pinchossowitsch Podrabinek and Felix Serebrow and the Leningrad Dschemma Babitsch (Kwachevskaya). Finally, Kallistratova was involved in founding the human rights organization Memorial .

Kallistratova's niece Rimma Feodorovna Kallistratova taught at the Russian State University of Justice .

Kallistratova was buried in the Moscow Vostryakovo cemetery. In 1997 she was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of the Guild of Russian Lawyers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c КАЛЛИСТРАТОВА, Софья Васильевна . In: Курская Энциклопедия . Kursk 2004 ( [1] [accessed on January 28, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c Moscow Helsinki Group: История: Каллистратова Софья Васильевна (accessed January 28, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b Политические процессы (accessed January 28, 2020).
  4. ↑ a b Григоренко П. Г .: В подполье можно встретить только крыс . Звенья, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-7870-0013-7 ( [2] [accessed January 28, 2020]).
  5. ↑ ДВИЖЕНИЕ В ЗАЩИТУ ПРАВ ЧЕЛОВЕКА В СОВЕТСКОМ СОЮЗЕ ПРОДОЛЖАЕТСЯ: ХРОНИКА ТЕКУЩИХ СОБЫТИЙ ВЫТУС ) January 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b c Кузовкин Г. В., Макаров А. А .: Документы Инициативной группы по защите прав человека в СССР . Moscow 2009 ( [3] [accessed January 28, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Ким Ю .: Адвокатский вальс (accessed on January 28, 2020).
  8. ↑ Memorial: «ДЕЛО» КАЛЛИСТРАТОВОЙ (accessed on January 28, 2020).
  9. ↑ Merskey, Harold: Political neutrality and international cooperation in medicine . In: Journal of Medical Ethics . tape 4 , no. 2 , 1978, p. 74-77 .
personal data
SURNAME Kallistratowa, Sofja Wassiljewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Каллистратова, Софья Васильевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Rylsk
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1989
Place of death Moscow