Even the use of psychiatric facilities as a means of torture and detention is prevalent. One example of this inhuman and viscious persecution was released from exile in Siberia on March 2. A Jew. a refusenik. an activist. a reformer and above all a human being fighting the totalitarian nature of the Soviet regime: Ida Nudel has served close to 4 years of internal exile after being convicted of "malicious hooliganism" under article 206/2 of the Soviet Criminal Code. This conviction came after she repeatedly protested the denial of an exit visa. Her history is one of continual harassment. arrest. torture and depravation at the hand of the KGB. A true Prisoner of Conscience.