Since February. many of my colleagues have participated in the 1986 Call to Conscience Vigil for Soviet Jews. of which I am coordinator. I would like to thank those who have spoken out on behalf of refusenik cases this year. Their work publicizing the human rights record of the Soviet Union with regard to its Jewish community has been instrumental in obtaining emigration visas for refuseniks. A case in point is the recently released Apekin family. On July 1. after years of waiting. the Apekins left the Soviet Union. at least in part because of the rising level of public outrage over their treatment by the Soviet Government.
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