KIEV COURT COMMITTAL
(N.Z PA.-Reuter —Copyright) ! MOSCOW, February 1. ( A scientist charged in a Kiev court with anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda has been committed indefinitely to a special psychiatric hospital, say usually reliable sources. He is Leonid Plyushch, a Kiev mathematician and computer expert, in his early 30s, who was arrested over a year ago, apparently in connection with a nation-wide purge against the underground civil-rights journal "Chronicle of Current Events."
After months of investigation he was declared insane by doctors at the Serbsky Psychiatric Institute, in Moscow, and taken back to the Ukraine for trial. He was declared to be suffering from schizophrenia and “ideas of reform-making” according to a group of friends who appealed to the authorities last week to release him and let him leave the country.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33141, 3 February 1973, Page 5
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