Viktor Brailovsky. a doctor of computer science. lost his position as a computer scientist at the U.S.S.R.s Institute of Electronic Control Machines in 1972. Why? Simply because he requested permission to emigrate. Since that time. he has been harassed frequently by Soviet authorities. Because of his efforts to encourage free emigration. Brailovsky is now in prison. Worthy of note in this regard was Brailovskys leadership of a group of Soviet Jewish refusniks who. on the eve of the Helsinki Review Conference in Madrid in November 1980. appealed to President Brezhnev for free emigration of Soviet Jews. In ill health when arrested. Brailovsky has not been receiving. during his imprisonment. adequate medical treatment for a serious liver ailment. This resolution expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union should provide him with appropriate medical care. House Concurrent Resolution 50 also calls upon the Soviet Union to allow Mr. Brailovsky and his family to emigrate to Israel to join his brother and his family. Additionally. it urges the President to continue expressing at every appropriate opportunity the U.S. opposition to the incarceration and treatment of Mr. Brailovsky and inform the U.S.S.R. that the United States. in assessing its relationships with other countries. will take into consideration how they honor their commitments under international law. especially with respect to human rights.
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