Shmuel Zalmanson, brother of former Prisoner of Conscience Silva Zalmanson, and a Soviet Jewish activist “refusenik” was arrested today in Riga and told he would be informed about the charges against him within 15 days, according to Jewish sources. Other members of the family Israel and Vulf are in Soviet labor camps, as is Silva’s husband, Eduard Kuznetsov.
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