The Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament, has approved the findings of the ad hoc commission tasked with probing the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision in the case of impeached former president Rolandas Paksas. […]
Lithuania may face fines following the decision by parliamentarians not to allow former Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas to run again for elected office, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
A failed vote in the Lithuanian Seimas on Tuesday will prevent the leader of the ruling Order and Justice party, Rolandas Paksas, to run for parliament in next year’s elections. Observers say the situation has been engineered by the Labour Party which wants to steal Paksas’ voters. […]
There is no basis for equating post-war Soviet persecution of partisans in Lithuania with genocide, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. […]
Last week, the Lithuanian parliament rejected a bill that would have introduced civil partnership of opposite-sex couples. Conservative MP, who voted against the legislation, says it would have been a step towards legalizing same-sex partnership which, she insists, must be put to a referendum. […]
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. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday gave its initial backing to a constitutional amendment that will allow Rolandas Paksas, leader of the Order and Justice party, to run for parliament and president. […]
In the wake of a border guard operation that led to death of an 18-year-old suspect, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has suggested revising the legal acts regulating the use of service weapons in order to avoid future tragedies. […]
The Lithuanian society is not ready for same-sex partnerships, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė believes. […]
The new practice of the European Court of Human Rights on regulation of same-sex relationships is significant for Lithuania, says a lawyer of the Vilnius-based Human Rights Monitoring Institute. […]
The Lithuanian justice minister’s blanket rejection of a gender neutral bill to allow civil partnerships contravenes European standards, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis released on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Justice has drafted a bill that, if passed, would introduce the institution of partnership into the country’s Civil Code. However, the bill spells out that the possibility to form partnerships would only apply to opposite-sex couples. According to Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis, there is no need to legalize same-sex partnership because there are hardly any same-sex couples in Lithuania. […]
By treating opposite-sex and same-sex partnerships differently, Lithuania might violate the European Convention of Human Rights, Vilnius University Professor of Law Vytautas Mizaras says. […]
Two bills opening the way for impeached and removed Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas to run for parliament were to be presented for parliamentary deliberation on Thursday, but were removed from the agenda at the last minute. […]
A hundred Lithuanian MPs have drafted Constitutional amendments that should pave the way for Rolandas Paksas, a member of the ruling Order and Justice party who has been impeached as president in 2004 and banned from running for public office since then, to run for parliament and president again. […]
Lithuania’s representative at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Karolina Bubnytė has urged state institutions to focus its efforts on the implementation of the court’s rulings on sex change surgeries and the right for ousted president Rolandas Paksas to run for elections. […]
The Government of Lithuania wants the country’s courts to have the opportunity to turn to the European Court of Human Rights for consultation while hearing cases that might involve human rights violations. […]
The Council of Europe‘s Committee of Ministers, which monitors the execution of the European Court of Human Rights rulings, has called on Lithuania to adopt constitutional amendments to allow impeached president Rolandas Paksas to run for parliament. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday decided to send a package of proposed amendments on gender reassignment back to the government for further consideration after 62 lawmakers voted in favour of the motion, nine were against and 19 abstained. […]
The Council of Europe has warned Lithuania over its failure to adopt laws that would allow sex change surgeries. […]
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