Some 2000 people gathered here Sunday night to protest the arrest and forthcoming trial of Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky. A spokesman for Shcharansky’s family said that the three French attorneys named by Anatoly’s mother have been refused Soviet entry visas and have been denied permission to assist in his defense.
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