Jewish youth organizations and students staged a rally in front of the Soviet Embassy to protest against the harsh treatment of Jewish activists in the USSR. The protesters carried placards calling for the release of Prisoners of Conscience in Soviet jails and labor camps, including Anatoly Shcharansky, Vladimir Slepak, Ido Nudel and losif Begun.
Meanwhile, the Mexican Communist Party expressed disagreement with the sentences against Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg, the first time the party has disagreed publicly with the Soviet Union. Most of Mexico’s newspapers also assailed Soviet violations of human rights.
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