Speaker. I rise today in support of the congressional vigil for Soviet Jewrys call for the Soviet Union to allow Dr. Viktor Brailovsky to emigrate. Dr. Brailovsky was arrested November 13. 1980. on charges of "slandering the Soviet state". however. no basis for filing of formal charges has been established. When Brailovsky was arrested and jailed. the doctor was suffering from a liver ailment which required close medical attention. He must receive immediate care in order to prevent his condition from worsening. Brailovsky is a doctor of computer science who lost his position at the U.S.S.R.s Institute of Electronic Control Machines because he requested permission to emigrate. Brailovsky has been a prominent leader of a group of 237 Soviet Jewish refuseniks who. on the eve of the Helsinki Review Conference in Madrid in November 1980. appealed to President Brezhnev for free emigration of Soviet Jews. The treatment Dr. Brailovsky and his wife Irina have received solely because he requested permission to emigrate is a clear violation of the Helsinki agreement. This treatment is all the more reprehensible in light of the doctors need for medical assistance. I call upon the Soviet Union to honor the Helsinki accords and allow Viktor and Irina Brailovsky to emigrate with their family.e
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