Balys Gajauskas
Balys Gajauskas | |
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Member of Seimas of Lithuania | |
In office 1990–1992 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Vilkaviškis, Lithuania | 24 February 1926
Died | 28 September 2017 Vilnius, Lithuania | (aged 91)
Spouse | Irena Gajauskienė |
Children | Gražina Gajauskaitė |
Balys Gajauskas (24 February 1926 – 28 September 2017) was a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. In 1978 he became a prisoner of conscience after being sentenced for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" by the Supreme Court of the Lithuanian SSR. Before that he had served a 25-year sentence for having participated in the Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance, being released in 1973.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Prisoners of Conscience in the USSR (published by Amnesty International, 1980, p. 14