Soviet human ri-ghts From Mrs Lyudmila Alexeyeva and others Sir The Soviet authorities have arrested seven members of the Group to Promote the Observance of the Helsinki Ag reemen•t in the USSR They are Yuri Or lov physicist aged 52 Aleksandr Ginz burg manager of the Solzhenitsyn Fund in Aid of Political Prisoners in the USSR -aged 40 Anatoliy Shcharansky physicist 29 Mikola Rudenko writer 55 Oleksa Tikh-iy teacher 50 Zwiad Gamsakhurdiya philologist and Mira Kostava philologist T·he Gr-0up was forme last ¥a r to promote implementation of the humanitarian provisions of the H l sinki Agreement · It has distril uted its material on violations of human rights in the USSR to the govern ment s of all cou-ntries signatory to the Helsin·ki Agreement including the Soviet Government- fulfilling the Helsinki Agreement or of lettini the Soviet public monitor their actions They intend to use the a rrested persons as hostages in their campaign against dissidents and in· their negotiations with the West ·As overseas representatives of this Group we appeal to the public in those countries which subscribed to the Helsinki Agreement to press for the release of those· a·rr sted Genuine security in the vorld is impossible without the observance of human rights nd the violation of these rights in the USSR is a threat to the whole world The Soviet authorities are compelled to reckon with world ·pu lic opinion and if ·your readers give us th ei1· support the seven arrested Soviet ho$tages may be r leased Yours faithfully LYUDMILA ALEXEYEVA ANDREY AMALRIK ·-VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY T-he arrest of the seven member ·Post Office Box 90 of the Group h aded l y Profes r· Bromley Orlov that the Soviet Kent • authorities have · no· intention o · April 19 s·hows •·• '