Speaker. it is once again a great honor to join my colleagues in this very important effort to draw attention to the plight of Soviet Jews. In recent months. we have rejoiced at the large number of Soviet Jews who have been allowed to leave the Soviet Union for Israel. But. for every person who Is given permission to leave. there is another who is denied. One of those cases Is that of Dmitd Berman. On January 4. just days before his scheduled departure for Israel. Dmitri Bermans emigration and internal documents were seized by Soviet officials. Threatened with imprisonment and a retrial on a previously dismissed murder charge. Dmitri sought refuge at the Canadian Embassy In Moscow.
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