If the appeal fails. he will spend the next 31/2 years in a labor camp. Leonid Zabelishensky. an electrical engineer from Sverdlovsk. is scheduled to be brought to trial December 17. After applying in November 1971. to emigrate to Israel. he was immediately dismissed from his job. He has been kept by the Soviet authorities from working in his profession ever since. although he has obtained menial jobs. He is being brought to trial on the charge of "parasitism" since he has been unemployed for several monthsalbeit his wife works and earns a substantial income. I have sent telegrams to Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. to the prosecutor and judge in the Zabelishensky case. and to the appropriate judge and Ukrainian Communist Party head on behalf of Aleksandr Feldman. I have urged each of these officials to dismiss the charges against these two men. whose only crime is their desire to emigrate. and to allow them to join their families in Israel.
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