Gunārs Astra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Latvian human rights activist and anti-soviet dissident
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Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
About Gunārs Astra
- Gunars Astra (1931–1988) was a Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident arrested by the Soviet Union in 1961 and sentenced to prison for 15 years.
- He was released in 1976.
- In 1983, he was arrested again but released several weeks before his death.
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