This idea was proposed by the deputy of the capital city council Ritvars Jansons (National Alliance). In 2026, Latvijas Avīze reports, the Riga City Council may decide to grant special status to the southeastern sector of the necropolis founded in 1895, where prisoners from the Central Prison were buried in the 1940s and 1950s.
According to the Information Center of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia, 170 individuals arrested by the Military Tribunal of the Baltic Military District, as well as by the Supreme Court of the Latvian SSR, are buried here. The names of 36 individuals are known, while others require identification. The burial site of theology professor Viktor Terentjevičs (1907-1951), who was arrested for church propaganda and died in custody, has been determined. Also resting here is the leader of the national partisans, Catholic priest Anton Juhnevičs (1918-1947), who was sentenced to death.
Historian deputy Jansons intends to continue searching for documentary evidence in the archives, as well as to investigate the cemetery using modern technologies, without disturbing the remains of the deceased.
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