Refusenik authorities to significantly increase the emigration quota. In the years 1960 through 1970, only about 3,000 Soviet Jews had (legally) emigrated from the USSR; after the trial, in the period from 1971 to 1980 347,100 people received a visa to leave the USSR, 245,951 of them were Jews. Refuseniks included Jews who desired to emigrate on religious grounds, Jews seeking to immigrate to Israel for Zionist aspirations, and relatively secular Jews desiring to escape continuous state-sponsored antisemitism. A leading proponent and spokesman for the refusenik rights during the mid-1970s was Natan Sharansky. Sharansky's involvement with the Moscow Helsinki Group helped
My Life in Prison prison lifestyle. He realizes that prison and city life is a way of living he could not accomplish in his home village of Murang’a. Eventually, Zollo gains some social currency in prison with both the prison authorities and other prisoners. When he is released from prison seven years early, Zollo goes back to the city and tries to use the same peaceful strategies that helped him in prison. Soon after being released, Zollo instead returns to his home village of Murang’a. It was announced in November 2012 that a film would be made, based on the books. The cast and