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State Department officials submitted to the Soviet Embassy in Washington last week a legal petition written by a third-year student at the Law School seeking the reversal of the criminal conviction of Soviet Jewish dissident Ida Nudel...
...Soviet People's Court convicted Nudel and Vladimir Slepak last June of one count each of "malicious hooliganism" for hanging posters demanding permission to emigrate to Israel in the windows of their Moscow apartments. Nudel is known as the "guardian angel" of Soviet Jewish dissidents for her help to prisoners in Soviet labor camps, Artz said...
...brief seeks to prove that Nudel did not commit a crime under Soviet law, "but we expect the Soviet will be more affected by political considerations than the legal merits of our argument," Artz said. Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Patricia S. Schroeder (D.-Col.) signed the petition at Artz's request because the Soviets will pay more attention to congressmen," she said...
...This brief makes an impressive case that Ida Nudel could not have been guilty of 'malicious hooliganism' under Soviet law," Drinan, who is also a lawyer, said yesterday...
...years' internal exile for "malicious hooliganism." Slepak's offense: he and his wife had unfurled a banner saying LET US GO TO OUR SON IN ISRAEL on the balcony of their apartment as part of their campaign to win per mission to emigrate. Another Jewish dissident, Ida Nudel, 47, was sentenced to a four-year exile for a similar demonstration the same...