This important joint resolution is in support of President Reagans recent statements calling on the Soviet Union to release Anatoly Shcharansky and to end the imprisonment and persecution of Soviet Jewry if it truly wants peace and friendship. Senate Joint Resolution 161 calls on the Soviet Union to immediately release Anatoly Shcharansky. Yosef Begun. and all other prisoners of conscience and to allow them and thousands of other Jewish refuseniks. such as Ida Nudel and Vladimir Slepak. to emigrate immediately to Join their relatives abroad. I believe it is absolutely critical that the U.S. Congress go on record. as forcefully as possible to deplore the treatment of Jews imprisoned in the Soviet Union and to urge that. in the interest of basic human decency. these longsuffering people be freed immediately.
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