An extended panel of judges of the Supreme Court of Lithuania has overruled the appeals filed by Konstantin Mikhailov, former OMON officer sentenced to life in the 1991 killing of Lithuanian border guards and police officers at the Medininkai border checkpoint. The seven Supreme Court judges endorsed the rulings of other courts, which have ruled that the Medininkai Massacre was part of the Soviet policies to keep Lithuania in the Soviet Union. The Supreme Court said that in Mikhailov’s testimony, he was not involved in the killings, as was denied by evidence contained in the case. The...
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