Mr. Speaker. March 15 marks the fourth anniversary of the Soviet imprisonment of Anatoly Shcharansky and I rise today to protest this continued human rights violation. Soviet authorities convicted him on charges of treason. Yet his wish to emigrate to Israel with his wife. Avital. was his only crime. The conditions of his imprisonment have deteriorated. He is now being held in solitary confinement in an internal prison within the Perm Labor Camp. His rations have been cut in half and he is only allowed to see the light of day during onehalf hour exercise period per day. All family visits have been canceled at least until the end of 1981.
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