REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
LAW
ON REHABILITATION OF PERSONS REPRESSED FOR RESISTANCE TO
THE OCCUPYING REGIME
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania,
stating that the resistance of the people of Lithuania to
aggression and occupying regimes did not contradict the national
and international law,
emphasising that repressions against such persons were
carried out by the USSR courts and other bodies not related to
court, the courts of Nazi Germany and local courts, as well as
the courts of the former Lithuanian SSR,
endeavouring to eliminate the consequences of repressions
and to restore justice,
resolves:
1. To declare that the people of Lithuania who were
sentenced or imprisoned out of court by repressive bodies, or
their freedom was curtailed under the Criminal Code of the RSFSR
(1926), the criminal laws of other USSR republics, criminal
regulations of Nazi Germany or local laws (1941-1944) for
resistance to aggression and occupying regimes, and also were
deported from Lithuania in 1940-1953 and sentenced under Articles
62, 63, 66-68, 70, 73, 79-82, 88, 89, 199(1), 210, 211 of the
Criminal Code of the former Lithuanian SSR, both in Lithuania and
outside its boundaries, are innocent before the Republic of
Lithuania and all their civil rights are hereby restored.
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania assesses
the struggle of the participants in the resistance movement as
the expression of a nation's right to selfdefense.
2. The provision of Paragraph 1 hereof shall not be applied
to persons who participated in the acts genocide, as well as in
the massacre and torture of unarmed civilians.
3. Certificates concerning the sentence, imprisonment,
deportation or other curtailing of freedom shall be issued to
persons referred to in Paragraph 1 hereof by:
a) the Supreme Court of the Republic of Lithuania -- to
persons repressed by court institutions;
b) the procuracy of the Republic of Lithuania -- to persons
repressed out of court;
c) the Ministry of Internal Affairs -- to deportees.
Vytautas Landsbergis
President
Supreme Council
Republic of Lithuania
Vilnius
2 May 1990
No. I-180