Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to join in the congressional "Call to Conscience" vigil on behalf of Soviet Jewish families and individuals who are being detained in the U.S.S.R. as a result of the Soviet Governments repressive emigration policy. Unfortunately. today as I did 1 year ago. I must bring to my colleagues attention the plight of the Igor Guberman family. In fact. this statement is timed to the second anniversary of Mr. Qubermans sentence. Mr. Quberman is currently living in internal exile in Borodino. Siberia. having been convicted in March 1980 of dealing in stolen icons. Many who have followed his case believe that his conviction was a pretext by which the Soviet authorities are seeking to halt his previously active efforts on behalf of the rights of the Soviet Jewish community.
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