On June 13 and June 15 rallies were held to commemorate the anniversary of the imprisonment of the Soviet Jewish prisoners of conscience which featured prominent civil libertarians. humanitarians. and public officials. At the request of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry I have circulated an amnesty appeal petition to the New York delegation participants in the congressional adoptaprisoner which was released at the forementioned rallies. In that such occasions have. in the past. been marked by the granting of amnesty to prisoners. we signatories of the appeal hope that the Soviet Union will use this opportunity to release and repatriate those Soviet Jews now in prison who sought to emigrate to Israel. I am appending the amnesty appeal with its signatories:
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