Mr. Speaker. I join my colleagues today in demanding that the Soviet Union grant emigration rights to Ida Nudel. who is scheduled for release on March 20. 1982 from her forced internal exile in Siberia. For 3Y2 years she has struggled against the bitter Siberian conditions. her health progressively deteriorating. She is now the oldest prisoner of conscience and the only woman forced to endure these horrifying circumstances. Ida Nudel deserves to be reunited with her family in Israel. Her only crime was the desire for freedom to practice her beliefs. It is a right she is guaranteed under the principles embodied in the Helsinki accords of 1975. signed and endorsed by the Soviet Union.
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