THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 18 Friday, March 28, 1980 In E Russian Jew Is Sentenced to Five Years fr""""1111r WISHING ALL OUR FRIENDS AND -- CUSTOMERS, A HAPPY & HEALTHY PASSOVER .- -2 I TEL-TWELVE - SHOE REPAIR 28708 Telegraph Road 355-2467 Open Mon. thru Sat. 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. Sun. 12 to 5 Southfield, Mich. 48076 SHOES REBUILT LIKE NEW! Don't Throw Them Away. Service While You Shop • GOLF SHOES • SKATES SHARPENED ZIPPERS FOR SHOES AND HANDBAGS We Specialize in Orthopedic Work • EXPERT REPAIR ON LADIES' HANDBAGS AU S.1., LEATHER JACKETS & COATS REPAIRED • WE REPAIR SADDLES FOR HORSES NEW YORK (JTA) — Igor Guberman, the 44- year-old Jewish journalist and author, was sentenced to five years imprisonment and confiscation of his prop- erty at his trial on March 11, the National Council on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) re- ported. The NCSJ said it had no information as to the fate of a Jewish photographer who refused last fall to incrimi- nate Guberman. The Jewish photographer was one of three co-defendants who went on trial with Guberman. Two of them are convicted criminals, one of whom has served a jail sen- tence for larceny, and the third was the Jewish photo- grapher. Guberman was arrested last Aug. 13 and held in- communicado. He was sen- tenced on false charges of trafficking in stolen icons. Starting in 1973, G}iber- man, an active contributor to the underground publica- tion, "Jews In the USSR," had been approached by KGB agents, who were seeking information on Moscow activists. The KGB harassment increased after December 1978, when Igor, his wife Tatiana, and two children applied for exit visas to Israel. After months of re- peated refusals by Guberman to cooperate with the secret police, the KGB arrested Guberman on false charges of buy- ing and selling of icons, * * * Our geit J o,* inhei ct3Jover O ur Pai3over wa made luil for you very warm, and special too May 4appine33, good 4ealt4 q ood (Ler fill Ali Pai3over and all me year . TEL-TWELVE MALL Telegraph at Twelve Mile, Southfield Open Daily 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday Noon-5 p.m. Free Parking Efforts Made for Shcharansky AMSTERDAM (JTA) — international An "Shcharansky Tribunal" will be held here May 12-13, it was announced by Labor parliamentarian Harry van den Bergh, chairman of "Friends of Anatoly Shcharansky Committee." The tribunal, which was established in Holland last November, will be corn- prised of internationally famous personalities. The tribunal is focusing on Shcharansky but will also deal with other human rights violations in the USSR. Meanwhile, in Washing- ton, members of both politi- cal parties in the House and Senate on Monday and Tuesday deplored the con- tinued detention of Shcharansky for his efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry to emigrate to Israel, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mast.) sought to deliver a letter of protest on Shcharansky's behalf to the Soviet embassy last Friday but the embassy refused to accept it. The Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry urged Shcharansky's release. the NCSJ said. He had, in fact, been collecting medieval relics for many years, a practice not for- bidden by Soviet law, the NCSJ said. According to information made available to the NCSJ, evidence which sur- faced during the trial demonstrated that the two hard-core criminals had been burglarizing homes since 1973. In connection with the burglaries, stolen goods from 29 homes were cited as being sold to var- ious buyers, two of whom served as witnesses. One witness, Filipov, confessed buying 60 icons on several different occasions. Other witnesses included alleged victims of the bur- glaries. They admitted dur- ing the trial that they never filed complaints against the defendants and, in fact, never saw any of the stolen property exhibited as evi- dence. Most of the so-called evidence against Guberman was carried in the tes- timony of the two convicted criminals who testified that in 1978 Guberman bought 10 or 11 icons, knowing that they were stolen. They also admitted that they were guaranteed shorter, more lenient sentences if Guber- man were found guilty. According to informed sources in the Soviet Union, the defending attorney asked that all charges against Guberman be drop- ped because of lack of evi- dence. In opposition, the prosecutor argued in his summation that Guberman organized the thefts end, in fact, enticed the others into committing the actual crimes. The NCSJ also said that according to reports from the USSR, the pro- secutor said: "In spite of the fact that there is no concrete evidence against Guberman, I am sure the witnesses told the truth and Guberman is guilty of all the above crimes." He then asked the judge for a sentence of five years imprison- ment, with an added pen- alty of property confisca- tion. The NCSJ reported that the majority of Moscow Jewish activists say that authorities in their quest to keep Jewish emigration under tight control, are try- ing to stop the publication a "Jews In the USSR" and discourage those now on the fringe from becoming emig- ration activists. They espe- cially fear that Guberman's trial and subsequent sen- tence may become the first step in a clamp-down on Jewish activists. 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