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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 6, No. 75, Part I, 22 April 2002
Veniamin Iofe, a well known human-rights activist and historian,
has died, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported on 21 April. Law
enforcement authorities believe Iofe, 64, suffered a heart attack while
on the escalator at a city metro station. In 1965, Iofe was sentenced to
three years in a labor camp for working on the banned journal, "Kolokol."
From 1989, he headed the St. Petersburg branch of the Memorial human
rights group. JAC
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