While in custody awaiting trial. he received brutal treatment. sustaining inJuries serious enough to require his hospitalization. After his release from the hospital. Shnirman began serving a 3year prison term in a labor camp in the Ukrainian city of Vlnnitsa. Presumably. he is there presently. though his exact status is uncertainneither his wife nor his mother has been in contact with him since February. Simon Shnirmans nightmare is tragically common among Soviet Jews. Soviet emigration policies. always disgraceful. have become even more appalling in recent years. Of the approximately 3 million Jews in the Soviet Union. only 2.670 were allowed to emigrate in 1982. a 95percent drop from the paltry figure of Just 3 years ago.
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