Mr. Speaker. for over 2 years I have been speaking out in behalf of Isaak Shkolnik. a Soviet Jew. whose only crime is that he wants to emigrate to Israel. where his wife and daughter now live. For this simple wish Isaak Shkolnik has paid dearly. In 1971. Isaak. his wife Feiga. and his daughter Luiza applied for emigration visas to Israel. His wife and daughter were subsequently granted visas to Israel. Isaak. however. was arrested in July of 1972 and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. That sentence was later reduced to 7 years. On July 5. 1979. exactly 7 years later.
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