I am pleased to participate in todays special order which will put myself and a number of my colleagues on record against the brutality of the Soviet Union in their treatment of political prisoners and their overall deprivations of basic human rights for their citizens and those of their captive satellites. The case of Anatoly Shcharansky constitutes a moral and legal outrage. Shcharansky for the offense of seeking to emigrate to Israel with his wifewas instead found guilty of the trumped up charge of treason and sentenced to 13 long years of imprisonment. This sentence is being served and 4 years have been completed. The Soviet Union has repeatedly raised hopes in this Nation and around the free world that Shcharansky would be released.
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