Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Viktor Brailovsky has been released from three years of internal exile and has rejoined his family in Moscow, it was reported here.
The 48-year-old computer scientist was arrested and charged with “circulating fabrications known to be false which defame the Soviet state and social system.” He was exiled to the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan. Brailovsky was sentenced to five years of exile, but because of his lengthy period of pretrial detention the sentence was shortened. He has been active in the Jewish cultural and emigration movements since first applying to emigrate to Israel in 1972. One of the official organizers of the weekly, unofficial refusenik scientists’ seminars, Brailovsky was the co-editor of the samizdat journal “Jews in the USSR.”
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