I was accompanied on my visit by six constituents. Alan Respler. Michael Varbalow. Eugene Bass. Mort and Claire Jacobs. and Marcy Sanders. They were able to accompany me on several of my visits with Soviet refuseniks and families of prisoners of conscience. A poignant experience was the visit to the mother of a prisoner. Julian Edelstein. who was imprisoned after having filed for a visa to emigrate. Julian was arrested in September 1984 and falsely charged with possession of narcotics. He was sentenced to 3 years in a labor camp and has since been imprisoned under less than humanitarian conditions.
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