 Fedin, who had been criticized in an essay by Sinyavsky, urged him to make an example of the writers.On 13 January 1966, Brezhnev made the final decision to go ahead with the trial.In October 1965, Sinyavsky and Daniel's detention became publicly known when Giancarlo Vigorelli, the Secretary General of the European Community of Writers, raised the question at a meeting of the organization in Rome.