Aleksandr Feldman of Kiev, the 26-year-old Jewish engineer and Soviet activist who was sentenced last November to three and a half years at hard labor, may be the victim of an attempted frame-up, it was reported today by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
According to the SSSJ, Feldman was handed a book in his jail cell and as he opened it a knife fell out. According to the SSSJ this was an effort on the part of Soviet authorities to try to make Feldman to appear as a criminal and thereby give them the basis to charge him further for criminal activity. Feldman was originally sentenced for allegedly hitting a woman and injuring her.
Meanwhile, the SSSJ said there was no further word on the hunger strike that was to have begun last Friday by David Azbel and three of his companions. The Soviet Jewry group said it tried to reach the 62-year-old physics professor in Moscow over the weekend but was told that his telephone was disconnected.
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