Arkady Voloshin and Lazar Abramovitch Trakhtenberg, sentenced in Kishinev in June, 1971, to two years’ imprisonment at forced labor, have been released and have returned home, Soviet Jewish sources reported today. Voloshin, 26, and Trakhtenberg, 25, were arrested Aug. 18, 1970, convicted of “anti-Soviet activities,” and released last Thursday evening, the second anniversary of their arrest.
Meanwhile, the sources said, activists Vladimir Prestin and Viktor Polsky of Moscow have been informed that they will be questioned about their contacts with Lazar Liubarsky of Rostov, who was recently detained. Prestin and Polsky were told that an official of the public prosecutor’s office surnamed Androsov was coming to Moscow from Rostov to question them, which was seen by the sources as a sure indication that Liubarsky will be put on trial. (In New York, Jewish sources reported that Mikhail Kliachkin and Viktor Yakhout, Russian Jewish activists called up for reserve duty, have been released after two months’ service.
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