Jewish activist losif Begun, sentenced last October to 12 years in a Soviet labor camp for “anti-Soviet agitation”, has recently been sentenced to six months in the camp prison for reasons unknown, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported today.
According to the SSSJ, friends speculate that his imprisonment within the Perm labor camp complex could be punishment for insisting on religious observance. But nothing definite is known because his wife and son were not permitted to see him when they visited the camp earlier this month.
The SSSJ said Mrs. Begun was informed at the camp that her correspondence with her husband was being confiscated. She also learned that before his confinement to the camp prison he was denied the privilege of purchasing small amounts of extra food from the camp store and that last month he was placed in solitary confinement for 15 days.
Since his sentence seven months ago, Begun was permitted to see his wife only once, for 15 minutes, the SSSJ reported.
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