For others. it means freedom of expression without fear of cruel reprisals such as being abused by a sadistic use of "psychiatric treatment." Today I am going to speak about those who ask nothing more than to be reunited with their families. Earlier this week I was visited by the families of four refuseniks who have been given the sad label of "Families of longterm refuseniks". A longterm refusenik is a Soviet citizen who has been denied permission to emigrate for more than 10 years. These cases are unfortunately not new to me. I have met personally in Moscow with two of the people whom I speak of today. I would like to review the specific cases of these four to illustrate the type of mindless persecution which the Soviet Union is still engaging in despite Mr. Gorbachevs much publicized glasnost. Grigory and Natalia Rozenshtein were refused an exit visa in 1974 based on Grigorys alleged access to "state secrets" in 19659 years earlier. It is now 22 years later and the Rozenshteins are still being denied the right to emigrate. Grigorys socalled sensitive work was the use of computer applications in his research on the structure of the human brain. His work. however. has been allowed to be published in scientific journals in both the Soviet Union and the West.
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