Mr. Zabilizhensky was a member of the faculty of the Eural Polytechnical Institute. and had been recently commended by his superiors as a "hard working and creative" teacher. But. his filing of an application to emigrate to Israel on November 11. 1972. has brought upon Mr. Zabilizhensky and his family a 2year period of harassment which has denied him the right to work and support his family. and has now culminated with his jailing in the Central Prison in Sverdlovsk on trumpedup charges. After filing his emigration application. Mr. Zabilizhensky was quickly fired from his job on November 25. 1971. on the grounds of being "unsuitable for the position of an educator of students"-in direct contradiction to his earlier commendations. Since that time he worked as a loader in a store. a milkman. and a porter. all the while being denied reentry into his profession. Meanwhile. his reapplications at 6month intervals for emigration have continued to be turned down without comment. Finally. in May of this year. Mr.
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