Dr. Mikhail Stern, the Vinnitsa physician, who was sentenced to eight years in prison has been sent to a labor camp, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry said it learned today. The SSSJ said it fears that Stern will now not be able to make any more appeals against his sentence.
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