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Outraged by what they describe as a "perfect mockery of justice," a group of Harvard Law School professors signed a petition sent last week to Moscow and the Soviet Embassy in Washington, denouncing the conviction of Soviet physicist Yuri Orlov who was found guilty last week in Moscow of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda...
...Orlov was arrested more than a year ago after having organized a group to publicize Soviet violations of human rights pledges. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and five years of internal exile...
...petition, signed by 230 professors from 30 different universities, was meant to express sympathy for Orlov, whose only crime was to found an organization to mind human rights, Alan J. Dershowitz '58, professor of Law, said yesterday...
...letter to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Bloembergen stated that Orlov's trial, which the public and the press were not permitted to attend, and the harsh sentence he received "deliberately defy and violate" the Helsinki pact...
Bloembergen criticized the Soviet Academy for "its complete silence" about Orlov and other imprisoned dissidents despite "numerous expressions of concern and protest over the past year and a half" from the international scientific community...