Volume 96 · 139
Public Law 97–209
Imploring the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to allow Doctor Semyon Gluzman and his family to emigrate to Israel.
Approved June 30, 1982
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Imploring the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to allow Doctor Semyon Gluzman and his family to emigrate to Israel.
Whereas the reputation of Doctor Semyon Gluzman as a physician of outstanding psychiatric medical ability spread throughout the Soviet Union to the consternation of Soviet leaders;
Whereas Doctor Gluzman refused to cooperate with the KGB in certifying human rights advocates as mentally ill;
Whereas, subsequently, the doctor was arrested on charges of being a Zionist propagandist and an anti-Soviet agitator and found guilty and sentenced to prison for seven years, to be followed by three years in exile on October 19, 1972;
Whereas Doctor Gluzman’s family received an invitation to join relatives in Israel; and
Whereas, for humanitarian and medical reasons, Doctor Semyon Gluzman should be freed from exile and allowed to emigrate with his family to the State of Israel: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That President Leonid
Dr. Semyon Gluzman and family, emigration to Israel.
Brezhnev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics authorize the immediate release of Doctor Semyon Gluzman from exile and grant permission for him and his family to emigrate to Israel.
Sec. 2.
A copy of this resolution shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State of the United States of America for conveyance to President Leonid Brezhnev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Approved June 30, 1982.