article_snippet.sent: It came after Vladimir Bukovsky managed to smuggle to the West 150 pages of documents detailing the abuse of psychiatric institutions for political reasons in the Communist state.
article_snippet.sent: Bukovsky is a dissident, author and activist who spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, forced-labour camps and forced-treatment psychiatric hospitals.
article_snippet.sent: He was first arrested by the Soviet authorities when He was part of a group of young activists who held public readings of banned poetry and organised demonstrations against the heavy-handed tactics of the Soviet authorities.
article_snippet.sent: The revelations sparked an international outcry, and Bukovsky was arrested for the spread of anti-Soviet propaganda.
article_snippet.sent: In 1976 Bukovsky finally secured Bukovsky freedom when Bukovsky was exchanged by the Soviet government for the Chilean Communist party leader Luis Corvalan.
article_snippet.sent: Bukovsky was described by The Daily Telegraph as 'pale and haggard' and 'underfed with an accelerated heartbeat' after Bukovsky long incarceration.
highlights_snippet.sent: Dissident spent 12 years in prisons for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda .