Mr. Speaker. today I ask my colleagues to join me in sending a strong message to the Soviet Union for the release of Ukrainian political prisoners of conscience. Statistics to date continue to show only a few Ukrainians are being released from Soviet camps and even fewer are allowed to emigrate. despite Gorbachevs new policy of glasnost. This weekend. I had the honor to meet with Danylo Shumuk. who after more than 40 years of imprisonment and exile. was allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union this past May. Mr. Shumuk was adopted by Amnesty International as the longest prisoner of conscience on record and attributes his release to the years of pressure by Amnesty International. human rights activists and world opinion.
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