Estonian appeal court commutes deporter's punishment

  • 1999-11-04
TALLINN (BNS) - A Tallinn district court commuted on Nov. 1 a four-year prison term given to Mikhail Neverovsky for acts of deportation committed in 1949 to three years on probation.Neverovsky was given his four-year term by the lower-level Parnu County Court on July 30 for preparations for and immediate particiption in deportations in March 1949. In pronouncing the decision under which Neverosvky was convicted, the judge said that all those acts constitute crimes against humanity.Neverovsky personally participated in the deportation of three families and collected data concerning hundreds...
 
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