The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry reported Tuesday that Prisoner of Conscience losef Begun has been transferred from the Perm labor camp to the notorious Chistopol Prison. His wife Inna was informed that Begun was tried on April 3, evidently within the camp, and sent to Chistopol four days later. A letter from the prison administration gave no other details.
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