Mr. Speak- An oppressed Jewish minority was created er. today I rise to draw attention to in the USSR. The Soviet Constitution and the plight of Soviet Jewish emigration Soviet law do not extend to this minority. which has been virtually frozen at its known as refuseniks. and their fate is in the lowest levels. I am proud and honored hands of the secret police and militia .... to join the 98th Congressional Class The policy of the authorities toward the reon Soviet Jewry in the 1983 Congres- fuseniks is all kinds of moral pressure in sional Call to Conscience Vigil for order to make them abandon their hope of Soviet Jews. I would like to take this emigration .... opportunity to bring to the attention I have been informed by the Nationof my colleagues the plight of Yuri al Conference on Soviet Jewry that on Tarnoposky. my adopted Prisoner of March 16. 1983. he was arrested and Conscience in the Soviet Union. formally charged under article 1901 You may recall seeing an article in of the Criminal Law Code of the Rusthe Washington Post on June 15 about sian Soviet Federated Socialist Repub12yearold Irina Tarnopolskys urgent lic (RSFSR). This law makes criminal and tragic plea on behalf of her fami- the "systematic circulation in an oral lys situation to Soviet leader Yuri form of fabrications known to be false Andropov. In a letter to Andropov. she which defame the Soviet state and appealed that her father be released social system..." This charge carries from prison and that her family be al- a maximum sentence of 3 years in lowed to emigrate to Israel. Irina prison. or 1 year of correctional tasks. wrote- or a 100 rubles fine. My father.
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