Informed sources told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today that a 48-year-old Jewish physician was arrested in Tzernowitz in the Ukraine two weeks ago after unsuccessfully applying for an exit visa. He was identified as Dr. Haim Renert, a gynecologist. The source said that four of the 30 Jews jailed after a protest last week at the offices of the chief Soviet prosecutor, Roman A. Rudenko, have been separated from their fellow prisoners. The four were identified by their last names only as Prestin, Zand, Slapak and Polsky. They had been sentenced to 15 day terms on charges of “hooliganism.” The source said their removal from the Moscow Jail to an unknown place of detention was unusual considering the short sentences and was “ominous.”
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