Speaker. on May 30. 1984. Osip Lokshin returned home to his family in Kishinev upon completing a 3year labor camp sentence for allegedly violating public order and defaming the Soviet state. Osips arrest and conviction were the culmination of his attempts. since 1979. to receive an exit visa to Israel for him and his family. His applications to emigrate have been denied on the grounds he has Insufficient kinship in Israel. In the fall of 1980. Lokshin. longterm refusenik Vladimir Tsukerman and several other Kishinev activists publicly declared their intention of staging a hunger strike to coincide with the opening of the Madrid Review Conference of the Helsinki accords on November 11. 1980.
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