The prosecution in the Leningrad trial asked today for death sentences by firing squad for two of the Jewish prisoners, Ma J. Mark Dymshitz and Edvard Kuznetsov, according to information received here late this evening. The prosecution demanded sentences of five to 15 years for the other nine defendants, two of them non-Jews.
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