Twenty-nine Zionists who were kept in prison for five months in the city of Minsk were sentenced by the Soviet authorities to be deported to Palestine.
The grounds for the charges against them were that they had been spreading illegal Zionist literature, conducting nationalistic propaganda among the Jewish population, and were in contact with Zionist organizations of the world.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
