Prisoner of Conscience Vladimir Kislak, who had served one year in a labor camp and two years “working for the national economy,” has returned to his home town of Kiev, it was reported today by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ).
The 49-year-old physicist has been waiting II years to join his wife Evgeny and son Maksim in Israel. He plans to renew his application to emigrate, the NCSJ reported. Kislak was arrested in March, 1981, and sentenced two months later to three years in a labor camp for “malicious hooliganism.” The sentence was changed in 1982. According to the NCSJ, he participated in a Moscow seminar on Jewish culture in 1976. He was tried on a trumped-up charge of allegedly attacking a woman on a street. Aware that there were no witnesses to the supposed incident, the judge pronounced that they were “unnecessary because all the facts arre known,” the NCSJ said.
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