Leonid Zabelishensky was sentenced Thursday to a six-months term for “parasitism” after a four day trial, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry The trial was held in Sverdlovsk where the judge, on opening it, said it would last several days, an unusual duration for trials on such charges. Fears had been expressed that a more serious charge might be listed against the defendant. Zabelishensky was dismissed from his post as a lecturer at the Sverdlovsk Polytechnic Institute after he applied for an exit visa to got to Israel.
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