Three Lithuanian judges arrested in absentia in Moscow
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The press service of Moscow’s Basmanny Court reported that three judges from Lithuania, who sentenced more than 50 Russians on the fact of the riots in Vilnius in 1991, were arrested in absentia by the court.
According to the press service, judges Ainora Maceviciene, Virginia Pakalnytė-Tamošiūnaite and Arturas Shumskas were sentenced to detention from the moment they were detained in Russia or after extradition.
The data of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation testify that in March 2019, the Judicial Collegium of the Vilnius District Court of Lithuania, consisting of Chairman Macyavicheny, as well as Judges Pakalnyte-Tamosiunaite and Shumskas, delivered a deliberately unjust verdict against more than 50 Russian citizens.
It is noted that they were convicted by the court of crimes against Lithuania and war crimes during the riots in Vilnius that took place in January 1991. In Russia, judges were charged in absentia with passing a knowingly unjust sentence of a court to imprisonment of citizens of the Russian Federation and they were put on an international wanted list.
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