Implementation Of The Helsinki Accords Vol. VI – Soviet Law And Helsinki Monitors
Tuesday, June 6, 1978, 4:00 am
Witnesses
Edward Bennett Williams
Washington Trial Lawyer
American counsel for Aleksandr Ginzburg, imprisoned member of Moscow Helsinki Watch and administrator of Solzhenitsyn Fund for the Aid of Political Prisoners and their Families
Alan Dershowitz
Civil Liberties Activist, Harvard Law School
American counsel for Anatoly Shcharansky, imprisoned Jewish activist and member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group
Ramsey Clark
Former U.S. Attorney General, National Chairman, Advisory Committee ACLU
American counsel for Yuri Orlov, imprisoned founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, and for Oleksiy Tykhy and Mykola Rudenko, two imprisoned members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Watch Group
George Fletcher
Professor, Expert on Comparative Legal Systems
UCLA Law School
This briefing discussed the repression against human rights activists in the Soviet Union. Chairman Fascell and Commissioner Leahy oversaw the testimony of several American lawyers representing imprisoned members of the Moscow-Helsinki Group detailing the abuses committed against their clients. Numerous documents from Soviet citizens were also submitted to the record documenting the Soviet authorities' violations of the Helsinki Accords' human rights provisions.
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