The Council of Europe Assembly has adopted a Swedish delegate’s report on the maltreatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. With the exception of the Communist delegate from France, the delegates voted for the report which strongly criticized “the arbitrary arrests and harassment” of Jews by the Soviet government. The report demands that the Soviet Union eliminate the obstacles to the emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel and make it easier for them to obtain visas. It also demands that the cultural and religious rights of Jews be respected in the USSR. According to the report, 130,000 requests for visas by Soviet Jews are still in the processing stage.
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