Andrei Sakharov calls for further reform in USSR

Title

Andrei Sakharov calls for further reform in USSR

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

3 Jun 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:30

Description

John Alcock reports on a news conference held by Andrei Sakharov (with excerpts), a leading Soviet dissident who was released from internal exile 2 years ago. He backed Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika reform policy but called for the release of all political prisoners. He also welcomed the Government’s call for a new international human rights conference in Moscow, but says it shouldn’t start until all Soviet troops had pulled out of Afghanistan.

Contributors

John Alcock; Andrei Sakharov

Keywords

Political prisoners; Human rights; Afghanistan; USSR; Political reform; Civil and political rights; Political dissidents; Mikhail Gorbachev

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