Prominent Leningrad Jewish activist Nicolai Yavour–who had earlier received permission to emigrate to Israel and paid the required education tax–was sentenced last week to a year’s imprisonment on charges of “hooliganism,” the American Jewish Congress has learned in a telephone call to a leading Jewish activist in Moscow. The AJ Congress was also informed that another Soviet Jewish activist–a colleague of Yavour’s surnamed Krichevsky–had similarly been charged with “hooliganism” and was now awaiting trial.
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