Soviet Dissident’s Wife Abandons 22-Day Fast
The wife of jailed Jewish dissident Yosef Begun said Tuesday she has ended a hunger strike after 22 days without authorities having granted her demand to receive letters from her husband.
Inna Begun, 49, told a news conference that she ended her fast Monday when her doctor advised her she was too ill to continue.
She said her son Boris, 20, and about 50 sympathizers are continuing the strike until the family receives mail from Begun, now serving a seven-year sentence for anti-Soviet agitation in Perm, about 937 miles east of Moscow.
Begun’s son said the last letter they received from his father was dated Nov. 20.
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