Prisoner of Conscience Leib Knokh is bleeding internally, according to information reaching the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime camp, all pleas to have Knokh removed to medical facilities have been unanswered. He was one of 11 defendants in the first Leningrad trial December, 1970. Having previously renounced his Soviet citizenship. Knokh claimed that he was no longer under the jurisdiction of a Soviet court and refused to answer any questions during his trial pertaining to anyone other than the defendants. His wife and child are now living in Israel.
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