Yelena Bonner: Russian human rights activist dies at 88 {wife of Sakharov}

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Yelena Bonner: Russian human rights activist dies at 88 {wife of Sakharov}

Source: BBC

The Russian human rights activist Yelena Bonner has died at the age of 88 after a long illness.

She married the nuclear scientist and fellow human rights activist Andrei Sakharov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.

Mrs Bonner became active in the human rights movement in the 1960s, and was a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a rights monitoring body.

She swiftly became one of the Soviet Union's leading rights activists.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13828019

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1. We need move of this type of "rights monitoring" than

ever..

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