The Lithuanian Court of Appeals on Monday upheld the life prison sentence for Konstantin Mikhailov, a former member of a Soviet special police unit convicted for his role in the killings of Lithuanian border guards and police officers at the Medininkai checkpoint in 1991, and reclassified the offense as a crime against humanity.
The sentence came into force after the Court of Appeal's ruling.
The Prosecutor General's Office had asked the court to reclassify the criminal act committed by Mikhailov from a murder to a crime against humanity, that i...
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