Losif Begun’s appeal may be heard this week, according to information received from Moscow by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. Begun has been held in Vladimir Prison since his arrest in November, 1982 on charges of “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” last October.
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