According to recent reports by Amnesty International: Prisoners have been subjected to illtreatment in Soviet corrective labour institutions and in prison while awaiting trial during the period under review. Many prisoners of conscience compulsorily confined to psychiatric hospitals have been forcibly administered disorienting and paincausing drugs and some are reported to have been beaten. And never before in the history of the Soviet Jewry movement has the emigration rate been so low. In 1984. only 896 Soviet Jews were allowed to emigrate. This compares with an emigration high point when 51.320 left in 1979. In fact. emigration was higher in February 1979 alone. at 3.287. than the total over the past 12 months. Mr. Speaker. as a nation which subscribed to the principles contained in the Helsinki accords.
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