Second Arrest
On October 23, 1983, Marchenko was arrested a second time and again charged with Article 62 of the Soviet penal code, Anti-Soviet Agitation and Propaganda. Marchenko was declared a dangerous offender, and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and five years of exile. He was held in terrible conditions, where he became ill. Because of international pressure for the freedom of journalists, he was allowed to move from the camp to a hospital. However, it was already too late.
On or about October 7, 1984, Valeriy Marchenko died in a Leningrad hospital. He is buried in the village of Hatne, in the Kiev Oblast. Today, in Kiev school Number 175, there is a museum devoted to the life and work of Valeriy Marchenko.
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Famous quotes containing the word arrest:
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)