They have suffered much because of their desire to rejoin their daughter in Israel. The Maryasins live in Riga. Latvia. and applied for exit permission in 1973. They were refused. for no stated reason. This was only the first of many such refusals. Apparently because of his application for emigration papers. Alexander Maryasin lost his executive post at a Riga manufacturing plant. His younger daughter was expelled from the university she was attending. Since then. the family has been jobless and has been forced to sell its possessions merely to survive. A hunger strike begun to bring attention to their desperate situation was officially ignored.
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