The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Latvia to pay World War II veteran Vasily Kononov EUR 30,000 (USD 47,000) in damages, the court said. Kononov, 85, had originally demanded EUR 5 million ( USD 7.8 million) in compensation for being illegally held in custody by Latvia on charges of war crimes, RIA Novosti writes. The court rejected Kononov's other demands, which included moral damages and compensation for the apartment and plot of land he had been forced to sell in order to pay for court expenses and medical treatment. Kononov, 84, who led a group of resistance fighters in the Baltic state during WWII, was convicted by Latvian authorities of ordering the killing of nine villagers in 1944, with some reports saying the dead included a pregnant woman. A retired police colonel born in Latvia, Kononov was arrested in...
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