Senate Joint Resolution 161. introduced only a few weeks ago. garnered the support of over 62 cosponsors and was quickly passed by the other body. The bill appeals for the release of Soviet Jews now held unjustly in Soviet prisons and labor camps. many of whom has been incarcerated only for expressing a desire to practice their religion and to study the Hebrew language. This measure goes on to further assert that the thousands of refuseniks who have been waiting for exit permits for so long. be allowed to emigrate to Israel to join their relatives. or in the case of those who have no family there. repatriation to their historic homeland. Earlier this week. the Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing. in which moving testimony was presented by Avital Shcharansky on behalf of her husband. Anatoly. who has become a symbol of the Soviet human rights movement throughout the world. suffering stoically through a 13year prison term that falsely charged him with being an agent of the United States.
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