CIA prison

  • 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. [...]

8 years ago
  • 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…

8 years ago
  • 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…

9 years ago
  • 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…

9 years ago
  • 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…

9 years ago
  • 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…

9 years ago
  • 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…

9 years ago
  • 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…

9 years ago
  • 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…

9 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian prosecutors resume CIA prison probe

Lithuanian prosecutors have resumed an investigation into alleged operations of US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) secret detention centre on Lithuanian…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years 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,…

10 years ago