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2018.09.11 16:23
Lawyer of Russian tried for 1991 crackdown in Vilnius calls him 'victim and hostage'
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Yuriy Mel
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The defense lawyer of Yuriy Mel, a Russian citizen arrested in Lithuania and now standing trial for his involvement in the January 1991 bloody crackdown on protesters in Vilnius, calls her client "a victim and hostage" to the Soviet political authorities of that time and describes the case as politicized.