Nine more Soviet Jewry activists were convicted Wednesday of demonstrating too close to the Soviet Embassy here. The nine were among a group of 42 Hebrew school teachers and others who had themselves arrested at a protest on the eve of the Geneva summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last November.
The November demonstration was the most recent in a series of arrest rallies outside the Soviet Embassy that began last May. Like almost all of the more than 100 demonstrators convicted to date, the nine who were tried Wednesday were given a 15-day suspended prison sentence, as well as six months unsupervised probation and a $50 fine.
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