A political or religious activist who does not agree with the government runs the risk of being shipped off to such facilities as Jilava Psychiatric Hospital or one of the Danube Delta labor camps. Here. prisoners of conscience and religious believers are many times injected with large quantities of drugs or are subjected to electroshock treatments as a means of political reeducation. Third. emigration to Israel is still declining significantly from a yearly high of 4.000 people prior to MFN to less than 1.200 in 1978 to less than 300 people so far this year. While the Bnai Brith has recently reversed its position from opposing MFN. to now supporting an extension based on secret assurances from the Romanian Government. one must question whether or not these secret assurances will be kept when public assurances to our Government have been repeatedly broken. And last and most importantly. lets examine the changes in the emigration barriers which have been established since 1975. Before MFN. in order to be able to emigrate from Romania a citizen had to fill out one lengthy application form. One barrier to freedom existed. Now. in the 4 years since we granted MFN. a citizen must: One. get on a waiting list for a preapplication form.
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