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- Title
Oppression of Scientists Intensifies.
- Authors
Boddé, Tineke
- Abstract
The article focuses on a report by human rights advocates, on the increase in the oppression of human rights activists and refuseniks by the Soviet Union. Refuseniks are citizens who applied for, but were refused exit visas by their government, many of whom are scientists. Dorothy Hirsch, executive director of the Committee of Concerned Scientists Inc. in New York City, says that she bases her observation on three facts which includes an increase in arrests of the leaders of activist movements in Russia, a rise in antisemitism by the Soviet Academy of Sciences and others, and a decline in the number of Soviet scientists receiving exit visas. Unidentified Western sources blame a deterioration in relations between the U.S. and the Russia for the worsening trend.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOVIET Union; HUMAN rights violations; REFUSENIKS; ANTISEMITISM; SCIENTISTS; HUMAN rights workers; SOVIET Union-United States relations; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
BioScience, 1981, Vol 31, Issue 9, p633
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1308635