Speaker. for some time now I have been deeply concerned about the plight of Soviet Jews who have been harassed and iml~risoned by Soviet authorities simply because they sought to exercise the basic human right to live in the country of their choice. Last year. I adopted a Soviet prisoner of conscience. Boris Azernikov. a 28yearold dentist whom the Soviet Government sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in a strictregime labor camp on charges of antiSoviet propaganda and antiSoviet organization simply for seeking to emigrate to Israel with his father. mother. and sister. During the ensuing months. I was in touch with Boris and his family. the commandant of the camp where Boris was imprisoned. and the Procurator General of the Soviet Union.
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