Ogurtsov is completing the final months of a 20year sentence in prison and in exile. When the Soviet Union signed the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. outrages like the ones committed against Begun. Volvovsky. Zunshain. and Ogurtsov were supposed to end. Over 100 Soviet citizens openly joined watch groups to monitor Soviet compliance. As of August 1985. the Soviet Union had imprisoned 51 members. imprisoned and released 20 others. and forced another 18 members to emigrate. As a result. the Moscow Helsinki Group announced. in September 1982. that it had to discontinue its activity. One member of the Moscow group is Elena Bonner. wife of Andrei Sakharov.
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