The National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported today that Arkady Shpilberg who was sentenced to three years strict regime at the May 1971 Riga trial, has been released from prison in the Soviet Union, and that Yuli Brind has been transferred to Voroshilovogradskaya Prison in Oblast Petrovskaya. Brind, sentenced to 2 1/2 years in 1971, has been singled out by prison guards and other prisoners in anti-Semitic attacks. The NCSJ said that it is apparent that they plan to make Brind’s relatively short sentence a difficult one.
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