Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to join my colleague. Mr. HowARD. and others in participating in the "Shatter the Silence Vigil. 1979." in an effort to improve emigration for Sovit Jews. Today. I would like to discuss the case of Iosif Mendelevich. His case presently has two significant aspects. With the release this past April of seven of the Prisoners of Conscience convicted in the infamous Leningrad Trial of 1970. there remains in prison three from that trial. two nonJews and Mendelevich. It is unjust for some who received harsher sentences than Mendelevichs to have been freed. and to keep him and the others incarcerated.
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