Vytautas Vasiliauskas

Vytautas Vasiliauskas (21 October 1930 – 7 November 2015) was a Lithuanian citizen who was a collaborator with the Soviet occupation regime and who worked with the Soviet Ministry of State Security. He was convicted of genocide for his role in the Soviet murder of Lithuanian resistance fighters. However, the European Court of Human Rights in a 9–8 decision overturned the conviction in October 2015, finding that the prosecution was unlawful under article 7 of the ECHR because genocide had not yet been criminalized in 1953. He died on 7 November 2015, at the age of 85.