They were allowed to return to their home. but must now live with the memory and fear of that incident in addition to their worries about Yuritheir husband and father. The Soviet Union must not be allowed to continue this harassment of its citizens and the denial of their human rights. The Soviet Government must not be allowed to forget the international conventions they have signed. including the Helsinki agreement which recognized the right to free emigration. Had this right to emigrate been respected. there would have been no need for Iosif Mendelevich. Aleksei Murzhenko. and Yuri Federov to have acted as they did 10 years ago. Had they been granted the right of free emigration. they might have spent the past 10 years in peace and freedom instead of fear and suffering. The others who acted with them a decade ago have all been released. Why must these three continue to pay for something to which they should have been entitled?.
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