Mr. Speaker. I rise in strong support of House Concurrent Resolution 304 urging the free exit of Yelena Bonner. Yelena and her husband. Nobel laureate and human rights activist Adrei Sakharov. have been under the close watch of Soviet authorities ever since applying for permission to emigrate. Recently. Yelena was arrested on the preposterous charge of "antiSoviet agitation." This ridiculous action follows in the path of the longstanding Soviet tradition of manufacturing charges for their own purposes of agitation and intimidation. In addition to the charge which carries a penalty of 3 years in prison. Yelena is also being threatened with the charge of treason.
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