Alexander Silnitsky, a 23-year-old Jewish student in Krasnodar has been arrested and is awaiting trial on charges of draft evasion, the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry reported today. The NYCSJ said this was the third time in two weeks that young Soviet Jews who had applied for exit visas were arrested on draft evasion charges. The two others arrested were Anatoly Malkin of Moscow, and Yaacov Vinarov of Kiev.
Silnitsky applied for a visa to emigrate to Israel in September, 1974 and was immediately expelled from the Technological Institute in Krasnodar where he was a student. He was subsequently repeatedly summoned to the registration office but refused to report on grounds that he was no longer a Soviet citizen but a citizen of Israel, the NYCSJ said.
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