The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office asks a court to find former Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov guilty of crimes against humanity during the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius and hand him a life sentence.
Gennady Ivanov
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Defendants in a mass trial related to the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius must be given severe prison sentences and pay over 11.3 million euros in damages in a civil lawsuit, public prosecutors from the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday.
Public prosecutors from the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday started delivering their concluding statements in a mass trial related to the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius.
The Vilnius Regional Court has cancelled hearings, scheduled for this week, in a mass trial related to the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius after Gennady Ivanov, one of the two defendants present in court, fell ill.
