While some are exiled to places like Siberia. others are sentenced to long terms in labor camps or prison or psychiatric hospitals where the treatment is especially inhumane. During my visit to the Soviet Union in 1982. 1 had the opportunity to meet with a Jewish dissident and teacher. Yuli Koshar. ovsky. who has suffered imprisonment. beatings and job loss because of hl- culture and faith. Since that time I have pressed for Kosharovskys freedom and for the emigration rights of Soviet Jews. In fact. in this Congress I introduced legislation. House Resolution 74. which calls upon the Soviet Union to cease its unconscionable persecution of Hebrew teachers and Jewish cultural activities in that country.
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