Dr. Viktor Brailovsky, held in a Moscow prison since his June trial for “anti-Soviet defamation,” has been flown out to internal exile in an area notorious in Czarist times as a place where political prisoners were sent to expire by slow death, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. The 46-year-old unofficial Jewish cultural leader and cyberneticist was taken to the town of Beindinen Gosdinidsa, in Kazak astan, near the Iranian border on the Caspian Sea.
The unusual fact that Brailovsky was flown into exile, rather than taken by very slow prisoner railway convoy, may indicate a serious deterioration in his health, the SSSJ and UCSJ said. Before his arrest last November, he was suffering from a serious liver ailment, and his wife was forbidden to bring him medication in prison.
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