Judge Lev Smirnov, who sentenced the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel to prison terms, has heen awarded the Order of Lenin "for his services in strengthening Socialist legality", it was recently reported in Moscow. Judge Lev Smirnov is chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and was honoured with some thirty other judges, prosecutors and lawyers. Sinyavsky and Daniel were gaoled for seven and five years respectively for alleged slandering of the state.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 20, 14 November 1967
Writers' Trial Judge Honoured
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