Iosif Berenshtein was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for allegedly resisting arrest. Moscow Hebrew teacher Yuli Edelshtein was sentenced to 3 years in a labor camp on charges of drug possession. He had previously applied for an emigration visa to Israel. Nadezhda Fradkova was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for parasitism. Fradkova repeatedly has been confined to a psychiatric hospital because authorities maintain that she must be sufiering from hallucinations since she insists on receiving an exit visa to Israel. Aleksandr Kholmiansky recently was convicted of weaponi possession after the KGB claimed to have found a gun and ammunition in his home. Kholmiansky is one of Moscows leading Hebrew teachers.
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