The World - News from Aug. 23, 1988

Soviet paramilitary police beat and kicked about 30 people and arrested more than 100 others during protests in Moscow marking the 20th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the “Prague Spring” reform movement, dissidents said. Arrested demonstrators were taken to a closed courtroom, and most received jail sentences of 10 to 15 days and fines of up to $320, the dissidents said. Sergei Grigoryants, editor of the dissident journal Glasnost, demanded a government investigation of “numerous crimes” committed by police during the protests Sunday.