August Usai

August Usai (4 December 1880 Lohusuu Parish, Tartu County – 7 or 8 July 1941 Tartu) was an Estonian educator and politician. He was a member of III Riigikogu.[1]

Following the Soviet occupation of Estonia during World War II, Usai was arrested on 27 June 1941 by the NKVD and convicted under § 58-4, 58-10 of the Russian SFNV Criminal Code (anti-Soviet agitation) and killed as a victim of the NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu on 8 July 1941 in Tartu Prison.[2]

References
  1. "Juhatus ja liikmed". Riigikogu (in Estonian). Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  2. "Usai, August". Museum of Occupations (in Estonian). 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
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