Speaker. the continued imprisonment of Anatoly Shcharansky in a Soviet prison camp is a gross abuse of fundamental human rights and deserves the attention of all Members of Congress. On this occasion. the 5th anniversary of his imprisonment. it is important for us to question what it is that Anatoly Shcharansky has done wrong and why it is that he is not a free man. In 1977. Shcharansky was convicted of treason and sentenced to 13 years in prison merely for desiring to emigrate to Israel to rejoin his wife. After being forced to leave the Soviet Union on the day following their wedding. Shcharanskys wife.
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