I am pleased to join in this special order in tribute to the heroic efforts on behalf of human rights by Anatoly and Avital Shcharansky. For 9 long years. Anatoly Shcharansky was a prisoner in Soviet labor camps. for the crime of attempting to emigrate from the Soviet Union. He suffered terribly from physiological and psychological abuse during that imprisonment. Yet he refused to give up hope that he would one day be free and reunited with his wife. Avital. For that tremendous strength of will and for the courage they both displayed in the face of terrible odds. Anatoly and Avital Shcharansky became living symbols of the human rights movement throughout the world. and particularly to Soviet Jews who sought. and who still seek. to emigrate to Israel. The free world rejoiced last February when the Soviet government at last agreed to release Mr. Shcharansky.
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