Mr. Speaker. just 1 week ago. America welcomed home 52 hostages after a seemingly endless 444day ordeal. But the release of the 52 from Iran did not signal the end of political repression nor the dawn of religious freedom throughout the world. We need look only to the north of Iran for ample evidence of officially sanctioned physical and mental mistreatment. Today in the Soviet Union. close to 200.000 Jews are hostages in a sense. persecuted because of their religious beliefs and forbidden to emigrate to freedom in Israel. Mr. Speaker. I wish to bring to the attention of my colleagues the plight of one such refusenik.
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