As part of the Congressional Call to Conscience on Soviet Jewry. I would like to relate the situation of refusenik Osip Lokshin. who has been waiting to leave the Soviet Union for 4 years. Lokshin applied for an exit visa in September 1979. In August 1980. almost 1 year later. Lokshin was denied his request on the grounds that his invitation to immigrate to Israel had not come from a first degree relative. In response. he and longterm refusenik Vladimir Tsukerman staged a hunger strike coinciding with the opening of the Madrid Review Conference on the Helsinki Accords. In October 1980.
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