European Court of Human Rights

Judge Gediminas Sagatys of the Supreme Court of Lithuania has been elected to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Šarūnas Narbutas, ex-president of the Lithuanian Cancer Patient Coalition (POLA), was detained unlawfully in a pre-trial investigation into the Government’s purchase of reagents for COVID-19 testing more than three years ago.

Representatives of the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) on Thursday met with Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen to discuss a motion to amend the law that says information about the LGBT community has a negative impact on minors.

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs took part in the official handover ceremony for the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, on Wednesday, the ministry reports.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Lithuanian politicians unduly interfered with a high-profile child custody case involving Lithuanian citizen Inga Rinau and her German husband Michael Rinau, and also concluded that law enforcement failed to ensure a fair process.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Lithuanian law-enforcement authorities discriminated against a gay couple when they refused to open an investigation into hateful comments against them on social media.

The European Court of Human Rights is set on Tuesday to announce if it will refer a landmark ruling that Soviet repressions against Lithuanian partisans can be treated as genocide to the Grand Chamber for a review.

Vitas Vasiliauskas, the board chairman of the central Bank of Lithuania, has been named the most influential civil servant in Lithuania in the traditional elite survey, the delfi.lt news website reports on Tuesday.

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.

Lithuania has stopped violating the rights of life prisoners and has provided real chances of release for them, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

The Seimas of Lithuania is violating human rights after it failed to grant state recognition to Romuva, an ancient Baltic religious community, on Thursday, the community's priestress Inija Trinkuniene says.

A Lithuanian court has rejected a request to move Konstantin Mikhailov, a former OMON officer sentenced to life in the 1991 killing Lithuanian border guards and police officers at the Medininkai border checkpoint, from a prison to a correction house.

Lithuania justly restricted home births, seeking to protect the health of mothers and children, the European Court of Human Rights rules on Tuesday.

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.

Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius has asked the Constitutional Court to clarify how to implement international institutions' recommendations to open the way for Lithuania's impeached former president Rolandas Paksas to run in elections.

It comes as no surprise that the European Court of Human Rights ruling in the so-called Drėlingas case has so far met with little public attention. This always happens when major events occur. Their scale takes time to emerge, Bernardas Gailius writes on lzinios.lt.

Last week European Court of Human Rights officially recognized that the crimes of Soviet soldiers against Lithuanian partisans for their resistance against the oppressive regime are considered as a genocide in Lithuania. Following the Court’s decision, MEP Antanas Guoga in the official letter urges ...

Lithuania decided not to reach a settlement with a citizen of Saudi Arabia in a case of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the secret CIA prison, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday.

Prior to starting deliberations regarding changes on the number of members of Seimas, Liberal Movement Seimas group prefect Eugenijus Gentvilas presented a resolution to the Seimas “Over the constant attempts to change the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania.” With this, it was proposed to for...

Lithuania's Constitutional Court of Thursday adjourned the hearing of a case on the rights of gay people married abroad.