Then. on December 22. 1980. he was sentenced after trial to 7 years in a hard labor camp and 5 years of internal exile for socalled "antiSoviet agitation and propaganda." He is currently serving this sentence in a Soviet prison camp in the Mordovian ASSR. and it is reported that he has been on hunger strike since June 15 to protest violations of human rights by the Soviet Government. With Senators DIXON. HAYAKAWA and DODD. I am at this time introducing a Senate resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Benedict Scott (Vytautas Skuodis) should be released from prison and allowed to emigrate to the United States. the land of his birth. if he so chooses. Scott is a U.S. citizen by birth. He deserves our protection and support.
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