Whereas the International Humanist & Ethical Union fully supports the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and

Whereas this Declaration guarantees the right of every individual freely to choose his or her place of residence, and

Whereas Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Ms Bonner, are now deprived of this right and are in internal exile at Gorky in the USSR, and

Whereas the USSR is a signer both of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the clauses of the Helsinki agreements dealing with Human Rights,

Now, therefore the Board of Directors of the IHEU, meeting in New York on July 8th 1984, urge that Dr Sakharov and his wife be released from their exile in Gorky, and

Furthermore that Ms Bonner-Sakharov be guaranteed permission forthwith to travel abroad for the medical treatment she needs, and that after such treatment be allowed to rejoin her husband with full benefit of the rights guaranteed to Soviet citizens under the Constitution of the USSR.

Board of Directors 1984