A leader of the Jordanian Communist Party, Naim Al Ash’Hab, who had been detained for 33 months in an Israeli prison under administrative detention laws, has been released and allowed to leave Israel to go to the Soviet Union, officials reported here today. The 30-year-old teacher had been detained on suspicion of subversive activities. Communist Party members in Israel and abroad have been seeking to obtain his release. The officials said that it had been decided that he could get treatment in Russia for an eye ailment. He was released yesterday and boarded an El Al plane for Cyprus, proceeding from there to Russia. A delegation of Rakah, the Israeli pro-Moscow Communist Party saw him off at Lydda airport.
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