The last was the sentencing in October of Leonid Volvovsky to 3 years confinement for antiSoviet slander. Iosie Begun. a prisoner of conscience since 1982. is suffering greatly in a punishment cell in Chistopol prison. Denied physical nourishmentin the freezing cell he is without warm clothing and must subsist on bread and water every second dayhe is also denied spiritual sustenance. His pleas for a bible are scornfully ignored. In the same prison is Anatoly Shcharansky. whose health continues to deteriorate. In and out of isolation cells. he tenaciously insists on his right to emigrate and join his wife Avital in Israel. Mr. Speaker. in closing.
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