Instead. as the Madrid Conference convened in November 1980 to review both human rights adherence to and violations of the Helsinki Accords of 1975. the U.S.S.R. jails a formidable citizen and accomplished author. lecturer. researcher. and inventor on the charge of "defamation of the Soviet State and public order." Following Dr. Brailovskys confinement in Moscows Butyrskaya Prison. I joined some 60 Members of Congress last fall who protested this action to Soviet Chairman Leonid Brezhnev and who asked for his immediate release and the familys right to emigrate. The Soviet reaction to this congressional petition was classic: the letter was ignored. Mr. Speaker. Dr. Brailovsky was obviously jailed because he was a leader of the Soviet Jewry emigration movement. publisher of the magazine. Jews in the U.S.S.R.. and because as a brilliant. though renegade. scientist he organized the Moscow Sunday Seminar with other unemployed physicists. mathematicians. and chemists to regenerate a scientific atmosphere in which to explore new ideas. Despite several arrests. jailings. hunger strikes. sit ins. and KGB searches since 1972.
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