BROOMFIELD on the sponsorship of this amendment. Mr. Chairman. in 1979. more than 51.000 Soviet Jews were allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union. In 1984. that number drastically declined to a mere 896. This number collapsed further this year so that only 499 have been allowed to emigrate. This deplorable trend does not appear to have been reversed under Mr. Gorbachev. in that only 36 Soviet Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union in June. The denial of emigration is only one of the continued violations by the Soviets in the area of basic human rights. Active religious persecution continues. People who choose to exercise their religious beliefs are subjected to harassment. physical abuse. and criminal sentences which often include hard labor.
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