Session #98 · 1983–85

Speech #980166640

Mr. President. like many other Members of the Senate I have spoken out repeatedly against human rights violations in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. I have sponsored legislation on behalf of a number of Soviet refuseniks and I have written hundreds of letters to Soviet leaders. urging them to end harassment and discrimination against Jewish and other citizens and to grant these people the basic human right to emigrate to the country of their choice. The cases of some of these brave people are well known. Anatoly Shcharansky. a computer scientist. was imprisoned in 1977 because of his tireless advocacy of human rights.
Keywords matched
emigrate

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
PAUL TSONGAS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
1984-03-20
Speech ID
980166640
Paragraph
#1
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