Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Counterrevolutionary Activities and Espionage |
Sentence: |
Death and Executed |
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Year Convicted: |
1938 |
Year Cleared: |
1958 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Russian Federation |
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City of Crime: |
Moscow |
Result: |
Posthumously Exonerated Extrajudicially (By duly empowered authority) |
Summary of Case: |
Vasily Fomich Sharangovich |
Conviction Caused By: |
False confession coerced by the torture of his interrogators. |
Innocence Proved By: |
"Vasily Fomich Sharangovich was rehabilitated in 1966 by the official recognition proper process had not been followed in his prosecution, conviction, and execution." |
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Male |
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White |
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"Vasily Fomich Sharangovich, Wikipedia.org (last visited 1-14-2015)" |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Sharangovich |
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