Friday, May 11, 1979
9:30am
2318 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC
United StatesTitle
Implementation of The Helsinki Accords Vol. X – Aleksandr Ginzburg On The Human Rights Situation In The U.S.S.R.
Members:
Name:
Hon. Dante B. Fascell
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Chairman
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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name:
Hon. Jonathan B. Bingham
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Commissioner
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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name:
Hon. John Buchanan
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Commissioner
Body:
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name:
Hon. Robert Dole
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Commissioner
Body:
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name:
Hon. Richard Stone
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Commissioner
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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name:
Hon. Patrick Leahy
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Commissioner
Body:
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name:
Hon. Millicent Fenwick
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Commissioner
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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
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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