House Concurrent Resolution 218 is a measure intended to help a prisoner of conscience in the Soviet Union. This resolution protests Soviet mistreatment of Mart Niklus. an Estonian human rights leader. Mart Niklus has been harassed by Soviet authorities for 22 years. arrested numerous times. imprisoned. and refused permission to emigrate. A scientist. he has not been permitted to work in his profession and has been dismissed from his job as a language teacher because of his attempts to promote in the Baltic countries Soviet compliance with the Helsinki accords. Niklus was sentenced to 10 years in prison. well over a year ago. for writing and circulating materials related to. among other things. the MolotovRibbentrop Pact and the trial of human rights activists. and for listening to the Voice of America.
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