Leningrad activist Albert (Chaim) Burstein was arrested Monday as he spoke by phone from a local post office to Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry director Lynn Singer. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail for “resisting arrest,” the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported.
According to the SSSJ, Burstein, 21, is one of Leningrad’s most daring refuseniks and has been a target of beatings, threats and harassment by the KGB. On November 5 he was forcibly prevented from flying to Vilnius in Lithuania to join activists there commemorating the Holocaust. The next day KGB agents beat him again and threatened to kill him, the SSSJ reported.
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