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Implementation of The Helsinki Accords Vol. X – Aleksandr Ginzburg On The Human Rights Situation In The U.S.S.R.

Members

Hon. Dante B. Fascell

Chairman

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Hon. Jonathan B. Bingham

Commissioner

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Hon. John Buchanan

Commissioner

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Hon. Robert Dole

Commissioner

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Hon. Richard Stone

Commissioner

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Hon. Patrick Leahy

Commissioner

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Hon. Millicent Fenwick

Commissioner

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Witnesses

Robert Bernstein

Chairman

Helsinki Watch

Lyudmila Alekseeva

Founding Member of Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group

Official Representative of the Helsinki Monitors Abroad

Aleksandr Ginzburg

Founding member of Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group

Administrator of Solzhenitsyn Fund for the Aid of Political Prisoners and their Families

CSCE Chairman Dante Fascell presided over this hearing on the human rights situation in the USSR. Aleksandr Ginzburg,a Russian human rights activist who had finally been released from the Gulag Archipelago and subsequently returned to his family, testified.  The hearing also focused on the repression and imprisonment of members of the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group, a Russian human rights advocacy organization whose work focused on pressure in support of the Helsinki Final Act. The hearing gave Ginzburg a platform to candidly discuss the as human rights abuses taking place in the USSR.

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