The World - News from April 28, 1987
Soviet dissident Tengiz Gudava said he has been released from prison after a monthlong hunger strike. Gudava, speaking to Western reporters in Moscow by telephone from Tbilisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, said his brother, Eduard, who also is in jail, has been told he will be released this week. Tengiz Gudava was arrested in June, 1985, and sentenced to seven years in prison followed by three years of internal exile for alleged anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. He had been a member of a group monitoring Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accords.
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