Prisoner of conscience Boris Azernikov was released from Potma, a strict regime labor camp and transferred to Leningrad after completing a three-and-a-half year term. He was told that he must leave for Israel within three weeks, it was reported Monday by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. Dr. Mikhail Stern’s lawyer, David Akselbandt, who is ill, has requested that the Feb. 11 hearing of Stern’s appeal in the Supreme Court of the Ukraine be postponed. Stern of Vinnitsa, was given an eight-year sentence on trumped up charges of bribery and swindling. In the meantime, a group of young hooligans stoned the Stern home breaking windows and injuring Dr. Stern’s wife, Ida, in the leg.
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