Mr. Speaker. as part of the 1983 Congressional Call to Conscience Vigil for Soviet Jewry. I would like to focus my colleagues attention on Iosif Begun. an engineer and Hebrew teacher in Moscow who has sought unsuccessfully since 1971 to emigrate to Israel. Begun first applied for an exit visa to emigrate to Israel in 1971. Since "hat time. he has been harassed by the KGB. exiled to Siberia. released from Siberian exile and rearrested. He is currently being incarcerated and punished in Vladimir Prison. awaiting a trial on charges of antiSoviet agitation and propaganda which carries a sentence of 12 years in prison and internal exile.
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