The trial of Viktor Polsky, the Moscow Jewish activist who is charged with reckless driving, has been delayed until the middle of Oct. because his attorney is out of town, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry learned today. Polsky was scheduled to go on trial last month but was then hospitalized for a hernia operation and the trial was re-scheduled for tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the NCSJ has just learned of two more “prisoners of conscience,” Arkady and Leonid Wineman, 22-year-old twins from Kharkov, who were sentenced to four years on May 17,1972, six days after they had applied for emigration visas.
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