Volume 35, Number 9 · June 2, 1988
Mission to Moscow
By Jeri Laber
An unprecedented meeting took place on Kropotkinskaya Street in Moscow last January at the headquarters of the Soviet Peace Fund. A group of Western human rights activists, known for their sharp criticisms of Soviet human rights practices, met for almost five hours with members of a newly established, officially approved Soviet human rights commission. That, by itself, was remarkable. Moreover, a dramatic encounter occurred when the Western visitors introduced three former Soviet political prisoners—members of an unofficial human rights group—and insisted that they be seated at the conference table and that one of them be allowed to speak.
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