But while the Soviets have released scores of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners from prison camps. thousands are said to remain. While losif Begun. Leonid Volvovsky. Roald Zelichonok. and others have been released. Yuli Edelshtein and Alexei Magarik are still subjected to forced labor and severe deprivation. While it is hinted that some 11.000 longterm refuseniks may soon be allowed to emigrate. there is no talk of reworking the wholly inadequate Decree on Emigration to allow hundreds of thousands of others to leave. Moreover. questions about national security restrictions on the emigration rights of some refuseniks cause grave concern. Just last month the Soviets announced that eight refuseniksVladimir Slepak. Alexander Lerner.
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