In January 1973. their request was denied because Irina had had access to secret information as a computer scientist at Moscow University. Since their refusal. Viktor and Irina have been involved with the Jewish emigration movement and Viktor was an organizer of the Moscow Seminar of Jewish Scientists. To protest the absence of free emigration of Jews. in 1973 the Brailovskys. along with eight other scientists. held a 17day hunger strike. The following year. in 1974. Viktor and other activists were imprisoned for 15 days for attempting to hold an international session of the seminar. In 1974. Viktor was granted permission to emigrate. but he refused to leave without his wife. son Leonid. and daughter Dalia. October of the same year. Viktor was arrested at a Moscow sitin demonstration and later released. In December. the Brailovsky home was searched in connection with the start of the Moscow Cultural Symposium. Many books on Jewish culture were confiscated along with tapes of Jewish and Israeli music. Two years later. in October of 1978. the rector of Moscow University stated that the university had no objection to Irinas emigration and would inform the officials. Despite this. she was once again denied an exit visa. The following month. Viktor was refused a teachers certificate by the local Ministry of Education.
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