Sentences up to five years’ imprisonment were imposed upon workers of the glass factory Novka for persecuting their fellow worker, Miss Hindin.
At the trial concluded today, the Russian worker Krievitch was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment; Dentshik to four years; Zhavoronkov and Spiridonov to three years each. Four other workers received lesser sentences.
The charges brought against the workers for persecuting the Jewish girl recalled the case of Miss Dreize Barshay, which attracted wide attention in Soviet Russia. The persecutors of Miss Hindin were charged with having poured hot melted glass over her.
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