Speaker. a decade ago. Yuri Federov. Josef Mendelevich. and Alexei Murzhenko were among several persons sentenced during the infamous "Leningrad Trials" to years of hard labor and. in two cases. death. These men were convicted for their participation in a plot to hijack an airplane from Riga. Latvia. and fly over the border to Sweden. While these three men languish in prison. subject to the grossest abuses of human rights. their compatriots from the Leningrad Trials have been allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. to emigrate to Israel or the United States. I have discussed their plight with Mr. Mendelevichs sister.
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