Politics
What to observe in Lithuanian politics in 2017
BNS Lithuania news agency lists the most important 2017 projected events on the political and public arena in Lithuania. […]
CIA prison
Politics
Alleged CIA prison in Lithuania on international prosecutors’ radar screen
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. […]
Society
Lithuania says CIA flights were not related to detained prisoners
The Lithuanian government told the European Court of Human Rights in a suspected secret CIA prison case that what CIA-linked aircraft transported to Lithuania a decade ago was not prisoners, but communications equipment for an intelligence support center that was being set up close to Vilnius.
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Society
Lithuania says no evidence that terror suspect was held in secret CIA prison
Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis says that Lithuania’s law-enforcement bodies have no evidence to support claims by a terror suspect that he was held in a secret CIA prison in Lithuania.
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Foreign affairs
Guantanamo detainees take Lithuania to European Court of Human Rights over CIA detentions
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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Society
Lithuanian courts dismiss Saudi’s claim to victim status for CIA imprisonment
Lithuania’s law enforcement has no substantial evidence of a Saudi Arabian citizen suspected of organizing the 9/11 terrorist attacks being brought to a secret CIA detention center in Lithuania, a Vilnius court ruled on Tuesday.
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Foreign affairs
Saudi prisoner at alleged CIA black site in Lithuania requests victim status
A lawyer for Mustafa al-Hawsawi, a Saudi citizen held in the Guantanamo Bay US detention facility, has asked a Vilnius court to grant victim status to her client because he could have been kept in a secret CIA black-site prison near Vilnius. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreign minister downplays CIA prison claims
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. […]
Foreign affairs
US Senate report confirms Lithuania hosted CIA prison, lawyer says
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. […]
Defence
Spying suspect tells court Belarusian agent was interested in US planes landing in Vilnius
Lithuanian citizen Romuald Lipskij, a former employee of state company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation), accused of spying for Belarus, says Sergey Kurulenko, an agent of the Chief Intelligence Board of the Belarusian Armed Forces’ General Staff, wanted to know the numbers of US planes landing in Vilnius Airport. […]
Society
Lithuania’s ex-security chiefs caught by surprise by investigation into their activities
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. […]
Society
Politics
Lithuanian MPs fail to set up CIA investigation panel
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. […]
Politics
Amnesty International accuses Lithuania of “evasion, denial and delays” in CIA prison investigation
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. […]
European Union
EP decides to renew probe into CIA prisons, Lithuanian parliament to take it up in spring session
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. […]
Politics
Lithuanian parliament will consider launching CIA prison inquiry
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. […]
Foreign affairs
Reprieve says new evidence of CIA prison in Lithuania
Reprieve human rights organization says it has sent new documents to Lithuanian prosecutors in connection to detention of suspected terrorists in Lithuania. […]
Opinion
Opinion: What terrorists and Putin have in store for us
For days now many in the global and Lithuanian media have locked horns over the terrorist acts in Paris. There are some who say that freedom to express one’s convictions is above any religious or social group interests; others contend that cartoons published by the likes of Charlie Hebdo made merciless mockery of believers’ feelings, that they cannot be subsumed under the “social group” category and have nothing to do with freedom of expression. […]
Politics
Over third of Lithuanian MPs suggest one more commission for alleged CIA prison
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. […]
Politics
Lithuanian president says there’s no need for new parliamentary probe into CIA prison
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. […]