Natan Shcharansky was born in 1948 in Stalino, now Donetsk, Ukraine. He was a member of the human rights movement in the USSR and one of the leaders of the struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to repatriate to Israel. In 1976, Shcharansky co-founded the Helsinki Accords Compliance Group, which monitored violations of the Helsinki Accords, including violations against various religious and national groups in the Soviet Union. In 1977 he was arrested on charges of treason and espionage. After nine years in prison, he was released on February 11, 1986. 1996-2005 - Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of four Israeli governments.Alexei Navalny: "I really have no idea how he survived... Reading his book, I sometimes shake my head to get rid of the feeling that I am reading my own personal file. For example: a SHIZO/PKT building is a separate barracks behind barbed wire. The maximum term in the SHIZO is 15 days. And I was not surprised when, after several "spots" in a row, I was transferred as a persistent offender to a PKT for six months. It was exactly the same.
