Russian WW2 Veteran Wins a Case Against Latvia :: Russia-InfoCentre Quote:
The European Court of Human Rights has satisfied the claim of the 85-year-old Russian partisan Vasily Kononov against Latvia where he was convicted “guilty of committing military crimes”.
The judgement was passed on the 19th of June but its text and the amount of compensation are to be officially announced on the 24th of July.
The defendant’s lawyer has no doubts his client will get the full compensation demanded – 5 million EUR. The maximum compensation ever adjudged by the European Court of Human Rights was 250.000 EUR.
The former partisan spent over 2.5 years in Latvian prison after he had been convicted guilty of killing nine civilians in one of the local villages in 1944. Vasily Kononov`s defence emphasised the fact that the people he killed were Nazi collaborators.
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The European court of Human Rights has upheld the complaint of a World War Two veteran against Latvia, where he had been found guilty of war crimes, reports Latvian Russian-language newspaper Vesti Segodnya, which quotes his lawyer.
Vasily Kononov, a Russian citizen, had asked for over 5 million euros from the Latvian government for what he claimed was bias in applying criminal law. The conditions of compensation to him have not been made public, the paper writes.
During the war, Kononov was the head of a partisan unit, fighting against the Nazis on Latvian territory. He was awarded 27 national awards.
In 1998 Kononov was arrested and charged with killing nine civilians in 1944. He didn't deny the claims but said the people had been Nazi collaborators.
Kononov has accused the Latvian government of politicising the proceedings and attempting to rewrite history.
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