The appeal by Mark Nashpitz, the Soviet Jewish activist who was sentenced last March to five years in exile, was rejected yesterday it was reported by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Nashpitz, 27, of Moscow, was sentenced together with Boris Tsitlionok who also received a sentence of five years in exile. Both were the first Jewish activists to be tried for public protests in Moscow. They were among nine Jews who demonstrated outside the Lenin Library Feb. 24 to protest against the refusal of Soviet authorities to grant them emigration visas.
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