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.
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Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė told a parliamentary commission on Wednesday that MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis was interviewed a day earlier in a pre-trial investigation into his potentially antisemitic statements on social media.
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...
Repeated violations of the law may lead to suspension of rebroadcasting of RTR Planeta and NTV Mir Lithuania channels for up to one year, says Edmundas Vaitekūnas, the head of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission.
The Lithuanian Gay League said on Wednesday it had turned to the European Commission over restrictions in Lithuania to air a pro-LGBT social ad.
The Lithuanian Gay League turned to court on Thursday, asking it to revoke the decision by the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics' that a social ad about LGBT people should be restricted under a controversial protection of minors law.
A social video ad about LGBT families is detrimental to minors and therefore must be restricted, the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics told the Lithuanian Gay League on Wednesday.
The Lithuanian Office of the Ombudsperson for Equal Opportunities has expressed criticism for the conclusion of the Journalist Ethics Inspector, which suggests that fairy tales about same-sex couples are harmful for children under the age of 14.
After Lithuanian TV broadcasters refuse to air a social ad video promoting LGBT rights, the inspector of journalist ethics promised to look into the matter.
