Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to inform my colleagues that Irina Ratushinskaya. Soviet poet and human rights activist. was released last night from the K.B.G. prison in Kiev. In 1983. Ms. Ratushinskaya was arrested and sentenced to 7 years hard labor for her activities in the human rights movement. She became active in the movement after she and her husband were refused permission to emigrate several times. Last summer. Ms. Ratushinskaya was moved from a labor camp in Mordavia to the K.B.G. prison in Kiev. Ms. Ratushinskaya was released unconditionally Thursday night. She plans to apply to go to Great Britain for medical treatment.
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