Dissident Russian priest jailed
NZPA-Reuter Moscow The Orthodox priest Gleb Yakunin was yesterday sentenced to five years in a hard labour camp and five years internal exile in the first big dissident trial to be held in Moscow since mid--1978. , Yakunin, aged 46, who founded a religious pressure group campaigning for greater, rights for Christians in the Soviet Union, was found guilty after a four-day trial on a charge of anti-So-viet agitation and propaganda. Yakunin’s wife Iraida, the only relative allowed inside the closely-guarded courtroom, told Western correspondents that her husband appeared calm as the judge delivered the sentence. The prosecution based its case on documents which Yakunin had written and distributed on behalf of his group, the Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers’ Rights in the Soviet Union. Yakunin denied they were aimed at subverting the Soviet. State.
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