The human rights activist, Soviet dissident Leonid Poyshch died
Leonid Poyshch Leonid Poyshch was a member of the initiative group for the protection of human rights in the USSR. In 1972, he was arrested on charges of anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda. In 1976 he left the USSR In France, at the age of 77, a mathematician, publicist, participant in the human rights movement in the USSR, Leonid Poyshch, died. This was reported by Radio Liberty by Arina Ginzburg - the widow of Alexander Ginzburg.