Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Soviet refusenik and dissident whose imprisonment and campaign became a landmark case for human rights and freedom of emigration.
1948, Stalino (now Donetsk), Ukrainian SSR
Moscow; Israel
Natan Sharansky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Soviet refusenik and dissident whose imprisonment and campaign became a landmark case for human rights and freedom of emigration.
Natan Sharansky is a Jewish former Soviet refusenik and dissident whose imprisonment for seeking to emigrate to Israel and to defend human rights became a landmark international cause. After nine years in Soviet prisons he was freed in 1986 and settled in Israel, where he served in government and led Jewish institutions. His case advanced the global cause of freedom of emigration and human rights.
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Soviet refusenik and dissident whose imprisonment and campaign became a landmark case for human rights and freedom of emigration.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natan_Sharansky
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