Lithuania's judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Wednesday that the Strasbourg-based court's facts on a secret CIA detention site near Vilnius are quite convincing and cannot be contested.
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The Lithuanian government has changed its position and decided to appeal against the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that the country hosted a secret CIA detention site.
In an effort to comply with the European Court of Human Rights' judgment, the Lithuanian government proposed on Tuesday that the parliament should define cases when people serving life sentences could become eligible for release from prison.
Lithuania's government will consider a proposal to define cases when people serving life prison sentences might be released. This way the country would implement the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Slovenia violated the rights of a Lithuanian sentenced for a bank robbery when it provided a Russian-language, and not a Lithuanian-language, interpreter.
Lithuania's elite sees Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department (VSD), as being the most influential among the country's civil servants and lawyers, Delfi.lt reported on Monday.
The Lithuanian government has decided not to appeal against the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that Lithuania hosted a secret CIA detention facility.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on Lithuania to fully investigate suspicions that a secret CIA prison operated in Lithuania.
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Lithuania to pay over 12,000 euros in compensation to a convicted gang member for inadequate detention condition in Lukiškės Remand Prison.
The Lithuanian government's representative at the European Court of Human Rights has started consultations with the justice and foreign ministers one whether to appeal the ECHR's ruling on the operation of a CIA prison in Lithuania.
An amnesty on the occasion of Lithuania's centenary and the upcoming visit of Pope Francis, proposed by Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, is worth discussing, Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevičius says.
Russian political activist Dmitry Buchenkov says he plans to learn Lithuanian and teach at a university after he was granted political asylum in the country this week.
The European Court of Human Rights' ruling on a CIA prison in Lithuania is "impracticable", Karolina Bubnytė, the Lithuanian government's representative at the ECHR, says.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will next week issue its ruling regarding suspicions that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a secret prison for terror suspects in Lithuania between 2005 and 2006.
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday gave its backing to a draft constitutional amendment that would pave the way for the country's impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections.
A draft constitutional amendment to allow Lithuania's impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections is planned to be submitted to the Seimas on Tuesday.
The new chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Stanislav Shevchuk, is visiting Vilnius on Monday to meet with Lithuania's officials and discuss support to the Ukrainian legal system reform.
More than half of members of the Seimas have registered constitutional amendments that would allow Lithuania's impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections.
