Alexander Feldman. who is serving a 3 1/2 year sentence at a Soviet labor camp has just been released from solitary confinement after 55 days, Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported yesterday. The sources reported that Israel Zalmanson, serving an eight year sentence at the Potma labor camp is presently in solitary confinement. The sources said his father was so informed by the authorities when they cancelled a visit to the prisoner scheduled for April 15.
(The National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported in New York today that Yuri Pokh, serving a three year sentence in Berdyansk, was put on a strict regime for five days because he was unable to fulfill his work quota. Pokh had just been released from 2 1/2 months in a hospital. His parents who had been waiting for several days to visit him at the labor camp were refused permission to see him. the NCSJ reported. According to the NCSJ this is severe punishment because the number of visits per year is strictly limited.)
(Another Jewish prisoner, Leonid Zabelishensky, was hospitalized for a brain concussion after falling from a height of 36 feet, the NCSJ reported. It also reported that Alexander Feldman’s fiance. Tutyana Chernoshova, was arrested as she was about to leave Kiev by train for Moscow. She was accused of stealing but was later released and told it was a mistake. Feldman’s father was refused permission to visit his son when he arrived at the camp because he had complained about camp conditions, the NCSJ said.)
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