Natalya Gorbanevskaya was a Russian poet and a civil-rights activist who, on 25 August 1968, was one of the eight people who took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. This led to her incarceration in a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis for ‘sluggish schizophrenia’. She was released from hospital in 1972 and emigrated to France in 1975, but she remained stateless for three decades until Poland granted her citizenship in 2005. Gorbanevskaya is best known for her ‘samizdat’ or clandestine publication A Chronicle of Current Events that focused on the violation of human rights in the Soviet Union, and for her book Red Square at Noon about the demonstration and her subsequent trial.