Charges have been dropped by New York City Criminal Court Justice Roger Hayes against all 55 rabbis and laypersons who were arrested October 12 at the Soviet UN Mission here. Their demonstration coincided with the Reagan-Gorbachev Iceland summit meeting and Yom Kippur eve.
The protesters, who had been charged with disorderly conduct, were organized by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry as part of “Operation Redemption,” a series of peaceful arrests at Soviet offices in the New York area in which 415 persons have been arrested since January 1985, including 173 rabbis and 12 legislators.
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