Also the Estonian orthinologist Mart Niklus. Lithuanian human rights activist Viktoras Petkus. Moscow Helsinki Group founder Yuri Orlov. and. of course. Jewish emigration activist Anatoly Shcharansky. And this is only a partial list. In his statement to the 1982 Pugwash Conference on International Cooperation. Andrei Sakharov mentions over 20 Soviet Prisoners of Conscience. without once having referred to his own arduous circumstances. such as having had to conduct a prolonged hunger strike with his wife Elena Bonner. so that the Soviet Government might "graciously" accede to his stepdaughters request for permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union and join her husband in the United States.
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