Mr. Speaker. I rise to join my distinguished colleagues in protesting the sentence of Ida Nudel by Soviet authorities and demand the leaders to permit her to emigrate to Israel upon her anticipated release on March 20. Our Guardian Angel has devoted her life to helping ease the conditions of other Prisoners of Conscience. and has fought against the Kremlins unrelenting persecution and oppression of Soviet Jews. Mr. Speaker. a courageous woman may be silenced temporarily. but while she is. there will be many of us to help with the cause. While Idas struggle for freedom has been halted for the moment. we in this Congress will continue to call attention to her plight and we will remind civilized nations around the world that she. and countless others have been continually harassed and denied the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union as guaranteed by the Helsinki accords. Ida Nudels sentence of 4 years in Siberia for the dubious crime of displaying a banner from her balcony that read "KGB. Give Me My Visa" should be terminated and her emigration to Israel permitted. This woman. whose only crime was to ask that a basic human right be respected. will receive my deepest commitment to help her and others who are being held against their will in the Soviet Union..
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