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PREM19/2547
Soviet Union (Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry: Prime Minister's interest in cases of Ida Nudel, Anatoly Shcharansky, Alexander Paritsky) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 331
Any docs withheld? 3

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81 Sep 15 Tu Major Soviet Union: Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses) [Anatoly Shcharansky case: MT asks FCO if more can be done to assist] [released Jul 2017]
82 Jan 20 We Major Soviet Union: Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry telegram 1328 to MT (freedom of speech and human rights abuses) [congratulations on 717th birthday of UK Parliament; highlights case of Anatoly Shcharansky] [released Jul 2017]
80 Jul 9 We Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Co-Chair of Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (Ida Nudel) [MT pledges that UK delegation will raise the case at the World Conference of the UN Decade for Women] [released Jul 2017]
83 Feb 8 Tu Major Soviet Union: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Anatoly Shcharansky") [human rights abuse case: UK representations] [released Jul 2017]
81 Jan 13 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses) [appeals & statements; representations made by UK government] [released Jul 2017]
82 Oct 22 Fr Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses: the Alexander Paritsky case) ["We shall raise this case with the Soviet Ambassador... it would be wrong to raise your hopes too far"] [released Jul 2017]
82 Sep 13 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) [thanks for update on condition] [released Jul 2017]
82 Oct 4 Mo Major Soviet Union: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Letters from the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry: Alexander Paritsky") [draft replies] [released Jul 2017]
82 Dec 15 We Major Soviet Union: Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses: the Alexander Paritsky case) [copy of a recent letter from Paritsky to his wife] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 15 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Avital Shcharansky, Lord Bethell) ["prospects of using the Madrid Conference for obtaining the release of [Anatoly] Shcharansky"] [released Jul 2017]
84 Dec 13 Th Major Soviet Union: Co-Chairs of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: Women's Campaign representations to Gorbachev) [thanks to MT for agreeing to No.10 delivering postcard representations to Soviet Embassy] [released Jul 2017]
83 Mar 12 Sa Major Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 614 to FCO (0435Z) ("Mrs Shcharansky") [human rights abuses: US intervention] [released Jul 2017]
84 Jan 6 Fr Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry") [advice on request that MT write foreword to booklet commemorating 7th anniversary of Anatoly Shcharansky's imprisonment] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 19 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [latest position; "doing all we can to keep up the pressure on the Soviet authorities"] [released Jul 2017]
85 Jul 10 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Avital Shcharansky, delegates from the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry) [human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case] [released Jul 2017]
84 Feb 13 Mo Major Soviet Union: Co-Chairs of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) [hope that MT can achieve breakthrough with new Soviet leadership] [released Jul 2017]
85 Jun 30 Su Major Soviet Union: Goldie Hershon letter to MT (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union) [courtesy note following meeting with MT] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 23 Fr Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Elena Fridman (Soviet persecution of Jews: the Ida Nudel case) ["I shall be speaking forcefully about this issue when I go to Moscow"] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 14 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 552 to FCO (0542Z) ("Schcharansky") [record of conversation: UK Ambassador, US Ambassador] [released Jul 2017]
83 Mar 15 Tu Major Soviet Union: MT message to the Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry (the plight of Soviet Jewry) [pledge of ongoing Western support] [released Jul 2017]