Kiev Jewish activists Elena Oleynik and her brother Sergei Rotshtein have had their prison sentences doubled and have been put in punishment cells, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils, for Soviet Jews. The pair were among a dozen Kiev refusniks arrested and sentenced to 15 days on Oct. 12 when they refused to leave the reception room of the Ukrainian Communist Party Central Committee where they were staging a sit-in for exit visas. The two groups also reported that Jewish and non-Jewish children between the ages of 7 and 15 and most university students will be banished from Moscow next July and August during the 1980 Olympic Games.
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