He was convicted of the political crime of "antiSoviet agitation and propaganda" and the trumpedup charge of "treason." At his trialwhich was little more than a farcethe authorities claimed that Anatoly Shcharanskv had worked with the CIA. a completely unfounded accusation that President Carter explicitly denied. Anatoly Shcharanskys real crime was that he was a Soviet Jew who wanted to leave the country but whose government would not let him. First refused permission to emigrate in 1973. this articulate young mathematician became a spokesman for the Jewish emigration movement in the Soviet Union. His commitment to basic human rights for all of his countrymennot just Jewssoon led him to become one of the founding members of the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group. Along with Yuri Orlov.
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