Dr. Nahum Salansky, a leading Jewish activist of Vilna, has finally received an exit visa to go to Israel, it was reported today by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Earlier this month charges of “anti-Soviet slander” against him were dropped by the Vilna prosecutor. Last Friday he was scheduled to receive his exit visa but was, instead, told to return Tuesday. When he arrived at the ovir office yesterday he was given his visa. Earlier reports that the visa had been denied were based on the event last Friday. Salansky is scheduled to leave the Soviet Union April 25, the SSSJ and Union of Councils reported.
POC RELEASED FROM PRISON
In a related development, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) reported that Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Alexander Feldman was released today from prison having served his three-and-a-half year sentence in an intensive regime prison camp. Feldman was convicted in 1973 of “malicious hooliganism” for allegedly “hitting a woman with a briefcase and causing her light bodily harm without harming her health.” Actually, the NCSJ said, Feldman was singled out for his emigration activities. He first applied for an exit visa in April, 1972.
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