Our contribution here complements the efforts of others and again demonstrates the high priority we place in this representative body on the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. Current trends in the Soviet Union are enormously disturbing to us. To the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. the cruel. inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment. and the denial of emigration the Soviet Government has long sanctioned against Its Jewish citizens. has now been added an official antiSemitic campaign. Today it is important to chronicle the wrongs we would see put right and the misguided policies we would see corrected. Today is also a day for us to focus on the courage of those Soviet Jews who have suffered long and fight still for their basic rights. including the right to emigrate. On this very day in 1977. Anatoly Shcharansky was arrested under the broad charges of treason and antiSoviet agitation and propaganda.
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