OMRI DAILY DIGEST

No. 208, Part I, 25 October 1996

A Moscow court sentenced Aleksandr Seregin to two years in jail for draft dodging on 24 October after refusing to recognize his constitutional right to alternative service, Ekspress-Khronika reported. The court, however, suspended the sentence for three years. The judge said that there is currently no law defining how conscientious objectors can use their right to participate in alternative service. Seregin is a member of the Anti-military Radical Association. -- Nikolai Iakoubovski.

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