E/CN.4/1989/44 page 47 "(One name provided), who was sentenced in 1983 for anti-Soviet aqitation and propaganda to six years' deprivation of liberty to be followed by four years of internal exile, has been released from his place of confinement in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Amnesty passed on 18 June 1987 on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Great October Revolution and was in exile. He has been exempted from the rest of his term of punishment and is now free. "(One name provided) has not been exiled. As a result of his refusal to observe Soviet legislation on rites, his name was removed from registers as the head of the diocese and he is now the priest of the Catholic parish of Zhagar bearing the title of bishop. "(One name provided) was released from his place of confinement in May 1988 and was in exile until September 1988 when he was exempted from the rest of his term of punishment by decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. "(One name provided) was released in 1987. "(One name provided), who was sentenced to two years and six months of deprivation of liberty for organizing group actions disturbing public order, was released conditionally in 1987 with obligatory work at an assigned place. "Assertions to the effect that believers are unlawfully placed in psychiatric asylums are groundless. Under Soviet legislation, internment in a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment is permissible only by court order concerning an individual who has committed socially dangerous acts and has been found by a competent psychiatric board to be non compos mentis as a result of mental illness. "(One name provided) having a record of convictions, is mentally ill. He is now under treatment at the Krasnodar general regional psychiatric hospital. "(One name provided) is mentally ill. He has been out of hospital since 1986. "(One name provided) having a record of convictions, is mentally ill. Since 1980 he has been hospitalized at the psychiatric hospital of his city of residence, Kaunas. "(One name provided) has not been subject to any persecution from law enforcement bodies. "The competent Soviet authorities have no information on the placement in psychiatric hospitals of (three names provided).