Silva Zalmanson, the former Soviet “Prisoner of Conscience,” was discharged today from Both Israel Medical Center after five days. She had been rushed there last Wednesday after collapsing on the 16th day of her hunger strike at the Isaiah Wall opposite the United Nations, At a news conference after her discharge she told reporters that she plans to visit Washington to seek the aid of Congressmen in her continuing struggle to gain her husband’s freedom. Her husband, Eduard Kuznetsov, and her brothers, Israel and Wulf Zalmanson, are in labor camps.
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