Soviet Jewish activist Kim Fridman was released from a Soviet labor camp on Saturday after completing a one-year sentence for alleged “parasitism,” it was reported by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Fridman, 47, returned to his old apartment in Kiev. He hopes to emigrate to Israel to join his wife and daughter who emigrated in 1976. His future, however, remains in doubt, the Conference reported.
Meanwhile, another Soviet Jewish activist, Mikhail Tsivin, 18, was arrested yesterday in Moscow’s Red Square for stating publicly that he wanted to emigrate to Israel. Tsivin, of Leningrad, had previously been subjected to constant harassment and was expelled from school last year and prohibited from pursuing educational opportunities in the future after he allegedly waved a sign that read “Let me go to Israel,” the Conference reported.
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