There are many examples being mentioned today. Each of them is heartbreaking. Let me add another to this sorrowful list. the case of Vinyamin Bogomolny. who has now been refused permission to emigrate for 20 years. making him the longestwaiting refusenik on record. This case is particularly urgent. Just the day before yesterday. the Bogomolnys were again refused permission to emigrate. This is after being encouraged to do so by the Soviet authorities. In 1966. Venyamin Bogomolnys family applied for exit permits. In 1970. Venyamins parents and three sisters were allowed to emigrate to Israel. but Venyamin was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Instead. he was drafted into the army. After his discharge. Venyamin again reapplied for an exit visa. but this and all subsequent attempts have been in vain. A particularly tragic aspect of this case is that Venyamins wife. Natasha. has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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