An exit visa will be granted to Gedalia Kipnis of Minsk who was recently released from jail where he had spent five months awaiting a trial which Soviet authorities cancelled last week, Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported today.
At the same time, a Leningrad Jew who applied for an exit visa 18 months ago, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years of “rehabilitative labor” at a Soviet labor camp for allegedly striking a restaurant cloak room attendant.
The sources said that Yepim Kritzevski, 26, who is married and the father of a one-year-old boy, will have to serve his sentence before he gets his visa. They said that Kritzevski attacked the attendant after the latter made anti-Semitic remarks.
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