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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