Let me briefly talk about just a few individuals who have met with me over the past months in an effort to win the release of their family members. Just yesterday. I succeeded in getting a call through to Moscow to talk with Vladimir Dashevsky who has been refused permission to emigrate to Israel for the past 11 years. With me during that call was Vladimirs daughter Irena who hereself only left the Soviet Union with her husband and 4 children 6 months ago to resettle in Israel. Vladimir is an astrophysicist. who. because of his expressed desire to leave the Soviet Union. has now been forced to make his living tutoring students. His denial is based on bureaucratic red tape which requires his inlaws to sign a document saying thaey are not dependent on him financially. So far. his inlaws have refused to comply. As Irena pointed out. here is a 50yearold man. the father of six and the grandfather of four who is allegedly being denied the opportunity to emigrate because his inlaws refuse to grant him permission. Clearly. this is a denial of Vladimirs basic human rights to be reunified with his family in Israel. When I spoke with Vladimir yesterday. he told me he was thriled that so many people in the United States had taken his case to heart.
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