Vladimir Markman went on trial in Sverdlovsk this morning on charges of anti-Soviet activity, sending abroad material harmful to the Soviet Union, engaging in nationalist propaganda and “hooliganism,” Soviet Jewish sources reported today. The Jewish activist was arrested April 29. The sources voiced fear that the prosecution would try to implicate Jewish activists in other cities. They recalled that during Markman’s interrogation, attempts were made to implicate Vladimir Slepak, Victor Polsky and others.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews cabled the Soviet ambassador here, strongly protesting the trial. The Universities Committee for Soviet Jewry organized a motorcade through London. In Bournemouth, the “35 Committee,” which demonstrated on Markman’s behalf last week, circulated a petition to be presented to the Soviet envoy.
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