Speaker. I was delighted to learn today from the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews that Ida Nudel. a prominent prisoner of conscience in the Soviet Union. has finally been released after serving a sentence of 4 years of internal exile in Siberia. Ida Nudel is one of dozens of Soviet Jews who have faced harassment. prosecution. and harsh prison sentences because of her unfaltering desire to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Join relatives in Israel. She first applied for exit permission in May 1971 and was repeatedly refused. At that time. she began her efforts to care for and support Jewish prisoners who had been jailed for their beliefs.
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