Eighteen relatives of Soviet Jewish prisoners were rebuffed in an attempt yesterday to speak with an official of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee or of the Supreme Soviet, according to authoritative reports from Moscow reaching here today. The 18 Jews approached the Central Committee building but were not admitted. They left a letter, signed by them, protesting the nine-month detention without trial of their arrested relatives. Trials were announced twice but were never held, they noted. The writers demanded the prisoners’ immediate release, as their only “crime” was a desire to migrate to Israel. No names were immediately available.
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