Burton S. Levinson, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and David Hyatt, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews have called for the remembrance of three Soviet Prisoners of Conscience during Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week, Feb. 17-24. The three POCs — losif Mendelevich, a religious Jew, Yuri Federov and Aleksei Murzhenko, two Christians — are the only remaining prisoners from the 1970 Leningrad trial.
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