Jewish activist Gavriel Shapiro will go on trial next week in Moscow on as yet unspecified charges, Jewish sources reported today. Judy Silver Shapiro, who married the activist in a religious ceremony in Moscow June 8 but was denied a civil marriage or a visa extension, reported from Cincinnati that her father-in-law, Jacob Shapiro, had been refused permission to see his son. The elder Shapiro, who wanted to give the 27-year-old prisoner a Bible, told his daughter-in-law by telephone that the authorities had told him: "This is a prison, not a church. You cannot see your son until after the trial."
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