The Israel Foreign Ministry yesterday received a memorandum from the Czechoslovak Government replying to a note handed Prague officials last June 11th, concerning the arrest of Mordechai Oren, Israeli Mapam leader, in Czechoslovakia last year.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman today announced that the Israel Government considered the Czechoslovak reply “unsatisfactory” and would continue its activities in the Oren case.
Oren was arrested in Prague where he went after a visit to East Berlin as a delegate of his party to a Communist-sponsored peace meeting. It was several months before the Prague authorities admitted his arrest on charges of “anti-state activities.”
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