— Carol Bellamy, New York City’s Council President, said here yesterday that she and other New York women are forming an organization on behalf of Ida Nudel, the Soviet Jewish activist who has been in exile in Siberia since 1978 after she challenged the Soviet authorities to give her an exit visa to Israel.
Speaking before the International Conference of Jewish Women’s Organizations for Soviet Jewry, held at the Melia Castilla Hotel here, Bellamy said the newly formed group will publicize Nudel’s plight in hopes of obtaining her release.
Nudel was convicted of “malicious hooliganism” and sentenced to four years exile in Siberia after she hung a banner from her Moscow apartment saying, “K.G.B., give me my visa.”
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