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Natan Sharansky

Over 700 students picketed the Metropolitan Museum yesterday demanding that its director, Thomas Having, intercede with Soviet officials to bring about the release of Anatoly Sharansky, the Soviet Jewish activist charged with treason who faces the death penalty. The students from Manhattan’s Ramaz School, ranging in age from six to 18, who were carrying signs […]

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The imprisonment of Soviet-Jewish activist Anatoly Sharansky, on charges of treason, epitomizes the whole issue of Soviet Jewry, including the legalistic questions involved in the Helsinki accords, Prof. Howard Greenberger of the New York University Law School said at a press briefing today at the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry offices. According to […]

Fourteen persons, including 10 rabbis, were charged with disorderly conduct Tuesday after they chained themselves to a fence outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations here to protest the charge of treason that has been made against Soviet Jewish activist Anatoly Sharansky. They were released pending a hearing June 21.

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