Media: court of Lithuania has not changed the measure of restraint military pensioners of the Russian Federation
The Lithuanian Court of appeal on Tuesday rejected a lawyer's request to change the measure of restraint military retiree Yuri Melo, which was placed behind bars Lithuanian police for taking part in the storming of the Vilnius television station in 1991, said the online version of the leading Lithuanian media.
Colonel 45-year-old Mel was arrested on 12 March at the border checkpoint Sovetsk-Panemune (Panemune) Russian-Lithuanian border. Transgressions against humanity and war of lawlessness, blame the competition, he faces imprisonment for life. The warrant for the arrest of Grinding was issued in absentia in 2013. The Vilnius district Court on March 14, decided to imprison him for two months as suspected in the case of the events of 13 January 1991 in Vilnius.
The court decided that the presence of the suspect on the loose may hinder the execution of justice. The term of arrest Grinding extended to March 2015.
The suspects in the case in connection with the events in Vilnius on 13 January 1991 recognized 79 citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. They are suspected of, for example, in illegal military actions against civilian persons as suspects are outside Lithuania, the European Court issued a warrant for Their detention. The Prosecutor General's office had hoped to finish the trial in March this year to give the case of 700 volumes on the court.
The Supreme Council of Lithuania eleven March 1990 declared the restoration of independence of the Republic, but the authorities of the USSR stated that the decision unconstitutional. In January 1991 in Lithuania were started unauthorized demonstrations of disagreement, then the Republic had already been deployed soldiers of the special forces, airborne units, which took a number of strategic objects. In the night of January 13, a column of Soviet tanks moved into the centre of Vilnius. During clashes near telecentre protesters with military, speaking on the side of Soviet power, died 14 people, more than 600 were injured.