Jan. . 21
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Soviets Sentence Paritsky to 3 Years in a Labor Camp
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Aleksandr Paritsky, a 43-
year-old Jewish engineer
and emigration activist, has
been - sentenced to three
years in a labor camp, the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry announced.
The punishment deliv-
ered in a Kharkov court is
the maximum sentence
possible for the charge he
faced: defaming the Soviet
state. Paritsky's trial began
Nov. 11.
He was not allowed to
have legal counsel and
served as attorney in his
own defense.
that city which held infor-
mal seminars to keep re-
fuseniks and their children
abreast of developments in
Jewish and academic life.
The Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ)
and the Union of Coun-
cils for Soviet Jews, re-
ported from New York in-
formation they received
from Kharkov on the first
day of Partisky's trial.
The three charges against
him are: writing letters to
Soviet officials; forcing his
daughter, Dorima, 15, to
write a school composition
stating she had two home-
Meanwhile, Israel is lands, one Russia and the
calling for world-wide in- other Israel; writing a letter
tercession with the Soviet to his brother, Isaac, in Is-
Union on behalf of rael, which was confisCated
Paritsky.
before it was mailed and
The Knesset issued an which the authorities claim
appeal to the Soviet
he asked for money. The let-
authorities to release
ter contained no such re-
Paritsky and permit him to quest, the SSSJ said.
emigrate to Israel. At the
(No one except Paritsky's
same time, it urged other
sister-in-law was permitted
parliaments and world pub-
in the court room when the
lic opinion to support his
trial opened. His wife was
cause.
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admitted only at the end of
Leon Dulzin, chairman of - the session. Partisky has no
the World Zionist Organiza- •attorney and defended him-
tion and. Jewish Agency
self. Another refusenik, Dr.
Executive's, said Paritsky's Evgeny Chudnovsky, a 33-
trial -*ea' pdit .of:Boviet year-old physicist who
moves to shut down com- wanted to testify in court,
pletely all avenues of exit
was placed under house ar-
for Soviet Jews.
rest.)
He said world public opin-
Meanwhile, Leah Cher-
ion must condemn the per-
nobilskaya, wife of Boris
secution of Soviet Jews who
Chernobilsky, has issued an
want to emigrate to Israel.
appeal on behalf of her hus-
Paritsky and his wife,
band who is hiding from the
Polina, who live in the Uk-
Soviet authorities for fear of
raine, applied to emigrate arrest.
in 1976 but were rejected.
Chernobilsky partici-
They have been in the foref- pated last May in a Vic-
ront of the Jewish emigra-
tory Day celebration
tion and culture movement which also paid tribute to
in Kharkov and were
the six million Jews who
among the founders of the died in the Holocaust.
"free Jewish university" in
The Jewish group was
•
Women's Soviet Jewry Plea
Dec. 10 at Main Center
surrounded by groups of
non-Jews, including
KGB agents and military
men.
When the Soviet officials
cried "Schnell, Schnell'
(German for hurry, hurry,
the same command used by
the Nazi concentration
camp guard to the Jewish
camp inmates), Cher-
nobilsky became angry and
called the military men fas-
cists.
Hearing this, the guards
arrested Chernobilsky, who
faces five years of impris-
onment in a labor camp for
his outburst. During the in-
vestigation, -the military
men changed their tes-
timony and said that Cher-
nobilsky had hit one of
them. However, witnesses
frorn–the Jewish group said
they saw no such thing.
In a related development,
the Jewish Community
Center of Greater Boston
received a message from
Nata}ya Khassin, who re-
ported on the Soviet gov-
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She said Soviet harass-
nient of Jews is increasing
and Jews who openly de-
clare their Jewishness or
desire to emigrate to Israel
are being punished.
Letters on behalf of Cher-
nobilsky and the Khassins
can be send to Anatoly Dob-
rynin, Ambassador, Em-
bassy of the USSR, 1125
16th St., N.W., Washington,
D.C., 20036.
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State Sen. Doug Ross.
The program will focus on
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Russian government, the
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