Sylva Zalmanson Kuznetsov, the Soviet Jewish political prisoner who has reportedly become seriously ill while serving her 10-year sentence, complained recently of “strong stomach pains,” the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported Tuesday. A prison official told her, however, “It would be better if you would work much more,” the SSSJ said.
In other developments reported by the student group, six Jewish prisoners at the Potma jail in Soviet Mordovia have written to the Supreme Soviet to protest inaction on their demand for removal of Soviet citizenship; Leib G. Khanokh has completed a 10-day hunger strike and been put back to work; Mikhail Korenblit has been transferred to a KGB camp in Saransk, Eastern Mordovia, and relatives of Mikhail Shepshelovich have had packages returned marked: “The correspondent is absent.”
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