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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005301378
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2009
• Case Number: F-2008-00844
• Publication Date: June 3, 1977

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4. USSR: ~PROMINENT JEWISH. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ANATOLY
SHCHARANSKY, WHO HAS BEEN UNDER DETENTION SINCE MARCH 15, HAS
BEEN FORMALLY CHARGED WITH TREASON%
THE CHARGE CARRIES A PENALTY OF 10.TO 15"YEARS IN A LABOR CAMP
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SPECULATION THAT SHCHARANSKYWOULD BE CHARGED WITH
TREASON HAS BEEN RIFE AMONG SOVIET DISSIDENTS INRECENT WEEKS.
ACCUSATIONS OF ESPIONAGE AGAINSTt ,HIM ,I/AND. SEVERAL US DIPLOMATS
AND NEWSMEN//,WERE PUBLISHED IN IZVESTIA . ,TWO.'WEEKS BEFORE HIS
DETENTION AND,WERE REPEATED IAN DETAIL`.IN EARLY MAY ?M
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SOVIET LAW, TREASON INCLUDES ESPIONAGEAND "RENDERING AID TO A
FOREIGN STATE IN CARRYING ON HOSTILE ACTIVITY." NO OFFICIAL,
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TREASON: CHARGE AGAINST SHCHARANSKY
HAS YET BEEN MADE, AND IN ANY EVENT, THE CHARGE COULD BE RE-
DUCED BEFORE ANY TRIAL OPENS.M
UNTIL HIS ARREST, SHCHARANSKY WAS ONE OF THE MOST
ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE DISSIDENT GROUP MONITORING SOVIET COMPLI-
ANCE WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS ASPECTS OF THE HELSINKI ACCORDS. THE
FOUNDER OF THE GROUP,' YURY`- ORLOV, -''AND HIS 'COLLEAGUE ALEKSANDR
GINZBURG ARE ALSO BEING DETAINED,BUT NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN
LEVIED AGAINST THEM. SOVIET `ANTI-DISSIDENT MOVES,IN RECENT
MONTHS HAVE SEEMED TO FOCUS' ON ORLOV'S MONITORIN"~11 GROUP, WHICH
HAS REGIONAL RANCRESF
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ARRESTED ACTIVISTS HOSTAGE
TO DEVELOPMENTS AT BELGRADE
RECENT PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN WARNING : THE WEST NOT TO:"OVEREMPHA
SIZE" HUMAN RIGHTS OR SEEK.TO PUT.,THE