War criminal's plea rejected
Press Assn—Copyright) OTTAWA, Oct. 27. The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union has rejected an appeal by a Russian-born Canadian citizen, David Geldiaschvilli, aged 58, who has been found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad, Agence France-Presse reports. A spokesman of the Ministry' of Extreme Affairs said yesterday that the Canadian Government had intervened. He w- but it is presumed that the Government had asked that the sentence be commuted. Geldiaschvilli from Montreal, was arrested in July of last year while on a visit to the Soviet Union, and was found guilty of taking part in the killings of 3000 Jews near Stavropol, in the south-west of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33676, 28 October 1974, Page 13
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