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Moldavian Jewish Engineer Arrested, Sent to Mental Asylum

April 7, 1971
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Aleksandr Zhenin, the Moldavian Jewish engineer arrested a few days ago after Hebrew books and recordings in his home were confiscated, has been sent to a mental asylum in Kishinev, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today from Jewish sources here. He was sent there when he started a hunger strike in jail. A Jewish source said that when the Soviet authorities commit a person to an asylum when he does not belong there, it is to drug him so as to “break him mentally.”

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