Sendor Levenzon, sentenced last week to six years in prison, will appeal his sentence in a Kishinev court on June 17, according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. His sister, Clara, originally sentenced to three years corrective labor, obtained her release because of inclusion in a pardon given for certain women prisoners. Another activist, Anatoly Malkin, recently arrested and charged with draft evasion, faces a sentence of three years in prison, Mark Azbel, Moscow activist, said at a news conference that he was told by the KGB that the seminars he held at his home are “anti-Soviet activities initiated by Israeli intelligence.”
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