Mr. Speaker. I rise to join my colleagues in urging Soviet authorities to release Viktor Brailovsky from prison and allow him and his wife and children to emigrate to Israel. Mr. Brailovsky and his wife. Irina. sought to leave the Soviet Empire in 1972. but were refused permission because Mrs. Brailovsky had access to "secret" information as peculiarly defined by the Communist overlords. In 1974. Viktor Brailovsky was imprisoned for 15 days because he wanted to hold an international session of the Moscow Seminar of Jewish Scientists. In 1976. Mr. Brailovsky finally received the needed permission to leave oppressive Soviet territory. but was cruelly denied the opportunity to take his family along with him. so he rejected the offer.
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