Mr. Speaker. one of the principles the Soviets accepted in signing the 1975 Helsinki accord is the freedom of emigration. Even while the Madrid Helsinki Review Conference. now underway. underscores repeated Soviet violations and continued repression of basic human rights. arrests go on of Soviet citizens whose crime is to seek to emigrate to Israel. The following Chicago SunTimes article of November 21. 1980. illustrates the brutal treatment accorded Moscow human rights activists and why we must maximize pressures on the Soviet Union to end the mistreatment of prisoners of conscience and insist that the promise of Helsinki is fulfilled in fact. [From the Chicago SunTimes. Nov. 21. 1980] SOVIET PRISON SYSTEM MuzzLEs ANOTHER
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