To Anatoly Shcharansky these words have a special meaning. For 4 years. Shcharansky has been incarcerated in a Soviet labor campdenied basic human decencyguilty only of working to insure that he and his fellow Soviet citizens could experience the basic human right to emigrate. March 15. 1981. is the fourth anniversary of the imprisonment of Anatoly Shcharansky. Arrested on trumpedup charges of espionage and treason. Shcharanskys true crime was merely his desire to emigrate and his refusal to be silenced. An ardent human rights advocate. deeply committed to the values embraced in the Helsinki accords. he became a founding member and the chief spokesperson for the Helsinki Watch Group. an organization created to monitor the Helsinki accords and to secure Soviet compliance with its provisions. Anatoly Shcharansky. along with so many others. became a victim of the struggle.
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