Benedict Scott is now in prison. serving 7 years hard labor. May 4 . 1982 Mr. Speaker. I am outraged at this treatment of an American citizen. The Soviet Union is a party to several international accords which guarantee basic rights such as free emigration. civil. and political rights. Surely one of these most basic rights is the freedom to return to the land of ones birth. The persecution. harassment. conviction. and sentencing of Benedict Scott makes a mockery of the Soviet Unions signature on the universal declaration of human rights and the international covenant on civil and political rights.
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