Theodore Mann, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), reported that POC Eugeny Lein was unexpectedly released one year early from his labor camp location in Krasnoyarsk, and arrived at his residence in Leningrad June 6. Lein was convicted in August 1981 of “resisting a representative of authority,” and sentenced to two years of “compulsory labor for the national economy.” “Now that he has rejoined his wife and daughter, after a difficult year in a labor camp, we hope that Eugeny Lein and his family will soon know true freedom and be permitted to emigrate to Israel,” Mann stated. Lein taught Hebrew to his fellow inmates following his conviction. He also instructed them in legal procedures.
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