Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Jewish Group Calls for Spy’s Release
The American section of the World Jewish Congress, representing 40 U.S. Jewish groups, called in New York for the commutation of Jonathan Jay Pollard’s life sentence for spying for Israel. Pollard’s lawyers are expected to ask a federal appeals court in a few months to grant him a new trial. In a statement, the group asked that Pollard’s sentence be commuted to time already served--just over six years. Pollard, a U.S. Naval intelligence analyst, was sentenced in 1987 for passing hundreds of top-secret documents to Israel.
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