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Prisoners of Conscience

An office to monitor Soviet emigration and human rights practices has been opened in Moscow, the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews has announced. The Moscow Bureau on Exit, Human Rights and Rule of Law in the USSR was opened Monday as a joint venture of the Union of Councils and the Moscow-based Public Committee […]

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Israel lashed back at Amnesty International on Tuesday, charging that the London-based organization which monitors human rights violations around the world relied on “politically motivated and tainted sources” for the accusations against Israel published in its 1990 annual report just released here. The 298-page report details Amnesty’s concerns over the treatment of political prisoners, minorities […]

Natan Sharansky reminded Nelson Mandela on Friday that Israel was one of the first nations to condemn apartheid, and he expressed the hope that the terrorist nature of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Libya would ultimately become apparent to the black South African leader. The two former prisoners of conscience met privately for half an […]

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