The Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington said today that it has learned from reliable sources that Jews will go on trial in Riga and Leningrad next month on aerial hijack plot charges. The sources said the trials would start after adjournment of the Communist Party Congress which opens in Moscow March 31. Ernest Shalowitz, chairman of the Council’s committee on Soviet Jews, said that according to the sources, some of the Jews convicted at the first Leningrad hijack trial last December will be called as witnesses in the new trial. He said the rest of them have been transferred to labor camps. According to Shalowitz, a new trial will open in Leningrad early in April and the trial in Riga will commence on April 15.
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