Soviet Union - Human Rights: Death Penalty Correspondence and background materials relating to the exercise of the death penalty in the Soviet Union and Russia. Contents: Amnesty International reports, including individual cases, letters from Amnesty International to Bethell regarding death penalty cases in the Soviet Union, and correspondence between Bethell and Prime Minister Tony Blair regarding former Soviet citizens, naturalised as British citizens against whom the death sentence had been passed in Russia. Also includes the case of a Belgian citizen. 18 Oct 1989 - 25 Sep 1998