I would like to thank my colleague. the gentleman from Colorado for coordinating this worthwhile effort. Our attention today is on the cases of two men. Aleksandr Magidovich and Grigory Geishis. who have applied. and still await. exit visas from the Soviet Union. These men are former prisoners of conscience who have completed their sentences in Soviet labor camps in late 1982. However. both Magidovich and Geishis remain in our hearts and thoughts as Jews who are still attempting. unsuccessfully. to emigrate to Israel. Magidovich has been a refusenik since 1973. On May 21. 1980. he was arrested and forcibly admitted to a Moscow psychiatric hospital where he was held for 4 months.
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