CIA prison

The government has asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to give it more time to prepare its position regarding a Saudi national's claim that he was unlawfully held in a secret CIA prison in Lithuania between 2005 and 2006.

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Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius said the country must "close the chapter" and prevent similar legal precedents in the future as he presented Lithuania's actions in the suspected secret CIA prison case on Friday.

Darius Raulusaitis, a former deputy prosecutor general, denies having put pressure on the prosecutor in charge of a pre-trial investigation into the alleged CIA detention site in Lithuania.

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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 wer...

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. To re...

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. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

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. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

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. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here...

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.

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.

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 Vil...

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.

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

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 prison...

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.