The signing of these agreements for the first time brought a glimmer of hope to caring people through the world who believed they would signal a new era for human rights and the rule of law. Yuri Orlov. a Soviet physicist. formed a Helsinki Monitoring Group in Moscow and Mykola Rudenko. a wellknown writer and poet. formed a Helsinki Monitoring Group in the Ukraine. Hopes were dashed as the Soviets. in direct violation of the accords. imprisoned them both. During the new period of glasnost. Yuri Orlov and Mykola Rudenko were fortunately released. But thousands of other Soviet prisoners of conscience still languish in Soviet prisons and hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews are still refused their right to emigrate. Among them Dr. Benjamin Chaeny. who is suffering from the most deadly form of cancer.
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