Dr. Vladimire Kislik, the 46-year-old activist from Kiev, who was arrested March 19 after he left a Purim party and was charged with assaulting a woman, has been placed in the notorious psychiatric ward of Kiev’s Pavlov Hospital, it was reported here by groups involved in the struggle for Soviet Jewry.
This is the second time Kislik has been placed in the hospital. He was sent there in July 1980 after he staged a hunger strike during a jail sentence for “hooliganism” and was released from the hospital only after strong protests from the West.
In other developments, it was reported that Soviet authorities prevented the latest weekly meeting of the unofficial seminar of Jewish refusenik scientists organized by Dr. Viktor Brailovsky until his arrest last November and continued by his wife Irina.
The seminars, initially stopped after Brailovsky’s arrest, reconvened in the Brailovsky apartment and had been continuing for the past several months, until April 26 when the Soviet authorities stepped in. To date, no formal charges have been made against Brailovsky who continues to be held in Butyrka Prison.
Meanwhile, Prisoner of Conscience Alexi Murzhenko was reported by his wife, who visited him in the Perm labor camp, to be suffering from an advanced state of tuberculosis. The mother of POC Yuri Federov, who visited him also in the Perm labor camp, reported that he has been ill for the last six weeks and is unable to work.
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