The National Conference on Soviet Jewry has learned that Viktor Brailovsky has started his journey by prisoner train into internal exile, the place of his banishment as yet unknown. On Aug. 14, Brailovsky’s appeal was heard by the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, which upheld the conviction and sentence of five years’ internal exile imposed by a lower court on June 18. The prominent refusenik scientist was convicted on alleged charges of “fabrications which defame the Soviet state and social system.”
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