  The history of APS involvement in the defense of human rights, a history of
which the Society can be proud, will be summarized. The summary will include
illustrative specific Society human rights defense actions in illustrative
specific cases. As will be emphasized, the aforesaid involvement has been
primarily through the activities of the APS Committee on International Freedom
of Scientists. It is noteworthy, and one of the reasons the Society can be
proud, that this Committee is charged with monitoring concerns regarding human
rights for scientists, not solely for physicists.
