Speaker. under a special order from my distinguished colleague from New York. I rise today to protest the Soviet mistreatment of Viktor Brailovsky and other Soviet refuseniks. and to put the Soviet Union on notice that the Congress is deeply concerned with their continued violations of the human rights and fundamental freedoms section of the Helsinki accord. Viktor Brailovsky. his wife. and two children have been trying to emigrate to Israel since 1972. He was dismissed from his position as a computer scientist at the Institute of Electronic Control Machines because of his emigration request. He has been harassed continuously and has been jailed numerous times. His home has been searched and invaluable scientific papers and Jewish cultural materials have been confiscated. On the eve of the Madrid Conference. Brailovsky was arrested on grounds of slandering the Soviet state because he led a group of 230 refuseniks on an appeal to President Leonid Brezhnev for free emigration of Soviet Jews. Since his arrest. Brailovskys health has deteriorated.
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