Nationality Lithuanian Date January 2, 1953 Criminal status Acquitted | Occupation KGB officer Name Vytautas Vasiliauskas | |
Born October 21, 1930 (age 93) ( 1930-10-21 ) Didvyriai, Kaunas District Victims Brothers Jonas and Antanas Astrauskas | ||
Criminal penalty 6 years imprisonment | ||
Vytautas Vasiliauskas (born October 21, 1930) is a Lithuanian citizen who was a collaborator with the Soviet Russian occupation regime and who worked with the Soviet Ministry of State Security. He was convicted of genocide for his role in the Soviet murder of Lithuanian resistance fighters.
In 2011 Vasiliauskas was found guilty by Kaunas District Court under Article 99 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code of the Soviet genocide committed in January 1953 of two Lithuanian partisans, and was sentenced to six years imprisonment. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeal and by the Supreme Court. However, the European Court of Human Rights in a 9-to-8 decision overturned the conviction in October 2015.
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