Please stop the humanitarian catastrophe. Ceasefire as a precondition for successful peace talks. The right to life is among the fundamental human rights. The 10-day-long special operation of the Russian army in Ukraine led to the violation of this right on a massive scale. Russian and Ukrainian servicemen are dying, civilians are dying, including children, hospitals are overflowed with the ... Continue Reading>>
The Committee of Concerned Scientists deplores the politically motivated decision of the Russian court to liquidate Memorial — the leading human rights watchdog founded by Russia’s most prominent human rights advocate, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, physicist Andrei Sakharov.
Russia forces Memorial human rights groups to close.
Russian human rights group International Memorial and its sister organization Human Rights Centre Memorial are being forced to close by Russian prosecutors for supposedly not labeling themselves “foreign agents”. They were founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and have been doing important work on preserving Russian historic documents and monitoring violations of human rights in ... Continue Reading>>
Joel Lebowitz’ Remembrances of Andrei Sakharov, December 27, 1978
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Andrei Sakharov’s 100th Anniversary: Boris Altshuler, Human Rights Activist and Former Political Dissident, Who Worked Closely with Sakharov, Shares His Memories (From Altshuler’s Article):
The historic achievement of the Soviet human rights movement of the 1970's is that it managed to turn the attention of the world’s Big Politics to the suffering of individuals. The role of Andrei Sakharov was crucial in this. It was not by chance that in his Nobel Lecture (1975) he listed 127 names of Soviet prisoners of conscience and apologized to those he missed. And surely the pain for every ... Continue Reading>>