Lithuania may face additional international pressure over suspicions that Americans operated a secret prison for terror suspects near Vilnius a decade ago as prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are considering launching a full-scale investigation into allegations that prisoners were tortured at the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention facilities. […]
Guantanamo detainees have filed a case against Lithuania at the European Court of Human Rights alleging that US authorities tortured them at a secret CIA detention centre near Vilnius.
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Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Friday downplayed claims by a lawyer of a former CIA prisoner that Lithuania hosted a CIA prison for suspected terrorists, saying that the country’s institutions are open to any investigations. […]
A report issued by the US Senate confirms that the United States operated a detention facility for suspected terrorists in Lithuania in 2005-2006, lawyer of a former prisoner, Saudi Arabia-born Palestinian national Abu Zubaydah, told the European Court of Human Rights. […]
Former chiefs of the Lithuanian State Security Department say they are unaware of the decision made by prosecutors to resume an investigation into suspected misconduct in the framework of the probe into alleged secret operations US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prison in Lithuania. […]
A parliamentary initiative to set up a special commission on an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania failed on Thursday after 25 lawmakers revoked their initial signatures. […]
International human rights organization Amnesty International has issued its annual report on the human rights situation around the world and is criticizing Lithuania for violations of rights of LGBTI people as well as accusing the country of “evasion, denial and delays” regarding alleged CIA prisons in the country. […]
On Wednesday, the European Parliament decided to reopen the investigation into alleged CIA prisons in different European countries. MEPs have also urged the member-states to investigate the related suspicions and prosecute those responsible. […]
The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, is to be proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission in the spring session to investigate accusations hurled against Lithuania over its participation in the CIA prisoner exchange and secret imprisonment operations. […]
Reprieve human rights organization says it has sent new documents to Lithuanian prosecutors in connection to detention of suspected terrorists in Lithuania. […]
More than a third of Lithuanian parliamentarians suggest setting up a parliamentary commission to investigate allegations about a secret US detention facility for suspected terrorists that operated in Lithuania a decade ago. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she sees no need to resume parliamentary investigation into an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania, but calls on law enforcement agencies to continue their separate probe. […]
The Lithuanian Parliament was proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission and to investigate and assess charges against Lithuania for its purported participation in the secret CIA prison programme. Meanwhile Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office said on Monday it had sent a legal assistance request to the US Department of Justice. […]
Lithuanian State Security Department chief Gediminas Grina told parliament on Tuesday he could not give any new answers about the US Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prisons. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to summon the head of the country’s State Security Department, Gediminas Grina, over suspicions that a secret CIA prison, mentioned in the recently-published US Senate’s report on detention and torture of suspected terrorists, could have operated in Lithuania in 2005-2006. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office has set up a special group for investigation of all data about the alleged prison of the US Central Intelligence Agency in Lithuania for interrogation of suspected terrorists, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania and other European Union (EU) countries must carry out independent investigations into the allegations of having hosted secret US detention centres for interrogation of suspected terrorists, the European Commission said. […]
Lithuania’s ruling Order and Justice Party is summoning the State Security Department‘s chief Gediminas Grina before parliament to give an explanation about the US Central Intelligence Agency’s “violet” detention site near Vilnius mentioned in the US Senate’s report. […]
Mečys Laurinkus, who headed Lithuania’s State Security Department in 1998-2004, says that the institution assisted the United States in its counter-terrorism efforts during the period, but did not ask for a reward and did not violate laws or international commitments. […]
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