HRES 346
99th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal procedure
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Embassies
Pardons
Public demonstrations
A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should pardon the 5 rabbis who were sentenced to prison on December 12, 1985, for peacefully demonstrating at the Embassy of the Soviet Union on behalf of persecuted Jewish cultural activists and teachers of Hebrew.
Introduced: December 17, 1985
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Dec 17, 1985
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Dec 17, 1985
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should grant pardons to Rabbis Leonard Cahan, David Oler, Bruce Kahn, Mark Levine, and H. Steven Bayar, who were sentenced to prison for demonstrating at the Embassy of the Soviet Union.
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Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
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