A former Jewish employe of the Dutch Embassy in Prague, Hubert Stein, was released from a prison in Czechoslovakia after seven years, it was just learned. Stein worked as an interpreter and translator at the embassy until July 1970 when he was arrested and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for alleged espionage. Holland had repeatedly urged his release on humanitarian grounds. During the 1950s Stein spent nine years in jail as a result of the Slansky trial.
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