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Andrei Sakharov: Moscow Human Rights Committee
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Sakharov became involved in the emerging human rights movement, cofounding the Moscow Human Rights Committee in 1970. Through articles, petitions, interviews, and demonstrations, Sakharov and others in the movement aided political prisoners and advocated the abolition of censorship, an independent judiciary, and the introduction of contested elections. Sakharov married fellow human rights activist Yelena Bonner in 1972. She represented him at the Nobel Prize ceremony in 1975. The Nobel Committee's citation emphasized Sakharov's linkage of human rights and international cooperation.
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In 1970, Sakharov and some friends founded the Moscow Human Rights Committee. He had begun to get involved in human rights issues some 20 years previously, when as an atheist he gave shelter in his own Moscow apartment to a Jewish mathematician (who had lost his job because of his religious beliefs) and his large family, helping them over this traumatic episode until the mathematician could find another job. Now it was through the Human Rights Committee that he met and collaborated with Elena Bonner, whom he later married.
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In 1968, without the go ahead from government superiors, Sakharov published essays in regard to the nuclear race and how if not halted or controlled would lead to a major nuclear war and the eventual fallout for all mankind. It was after these essays were published outside of the USSR that Andrei was banned from further military scientific pursuits. He went back to Moscow and formed the Moscow Human Rights Committee, which was watched very closely by the communist regime.
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