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
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; lt, Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; russian: Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialistiche ...
. Before that he had served a 25-year sentence for having participated in the
Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance, being released in 1973.
[''Prisoners of Conscience in the USSR'' (published by Amnesty International, 1980, p. 14]
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1926 births
2017 deaths
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by the Soviet Union
Lithuanian politicians
Soviet dissidents
Lithuanian prisoners and detainees
Soviet prisoners and detainees
Signatories of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
People from Vilkaviškis
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