Rene Cassin, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and chairman of the international colloquium on the Right to Leave and the Right to Return, recently held at Uppsala University, Sweden, has joined the many world-renowned personalities who have condemned Soviet exit fees for educated Jews seeking to emigrate.
Prof. Cassin is President of the International Institute for Human Rights, with headquarters in Strasbourg, France. The colloquium was cosponsored by the Strasbourg Institute, the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of New York and the Law Faculty of the University of Uppsala.
In a statement issued here, Prof. Cassin compared the Soviet actions to the “policies of Hitler.” He warned that “this policy is damaging not alone to the individuals…” but that “it constitutes a particularly offensive precedent for other countries, particularly undeveloped ones.”
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