Stanislav Zubko, a Soviet Jewish emigration activist, was sentenced to four years in a labor camp, it was reported here today by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The 43-year-old chemist was convicted on charges of alleged “illegal possession of drugs and firearms” in a court trial in Kiev yesterday. He declared his innocence, saying that the pistol and hashish found in his apartment had been planted there by the security police.
Reports received by the NCSJ indicate that a few days before Zubko’s arrest on May 16, policemen twice came to his home and took his mother to the police station. Subsequently, they returned to conduct a search on the pretext that “a neighboring apartment had been broken into.” They then “found” a quantity of hashish and a gun.
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