It is evident that the Soviets handling of the Brailovskys case is not in accord with the international conventions they have signed. The Helsinki agreement clearly states that nations are to make it their aim to facilitate freer movement and contacts among persons. I am outraged and disturbed by the Soviets arbitrary and inequitable system which denies basic human rights to its Jewish citizens who wish to emigrate. The situation in the past year has worsened greatlyin 1980. emigration dropped 58 percent from what it was in 1979. I urge all of my colleagues to continue to fight here in Congress and to speak out against the continued oppression experienced by the Soviet Jews. Soviet Jews should be accorded the full range of human rights the Helsinki Agreement recognized. and particularly the right to free emigration.9
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