Demonstrators in dozens of cars blocked all the streets leading to the Soviet Embassy to protest the continued imprisonment of Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly Shcharansky. The demonstrators blocked all traffic to the Embassy and paralyzed a central part of Paris for close to three hours Sunday night.
The protestors lit Chanukah candles outside the Embassy while chanting “Freedom for Shcharansky” and “Exit visas for all Russian Jews.” Shcharansky, who is serving a 13-year prison sentence, began a hunger strike September 27 in Chistipol prison to protest the denial by authorities of visitation rights and correspondence with his family.
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