Criminal Code

Opposition MP Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Farmers and Greens proposes to criminalise incest, including a punishment of up to 6 years imprisonment.

The State Security Department (VSD) notes that arguments of “sovereign citizens” with authorities are becoming increasingly heated. One of the more prominent cases happened last week, when parents from the “sovereign citizen” movement took their children from a childcare home without permission and ...

Deputy Justice Minister Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė has welcomed the recent decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office to open a pre-trial investigation into alleged transfers of Ukrainian children to Belarus.

The Seimas security committee chair appealed on Tuesday to the prosecutor general asking to prosecute Russian propagandists Vladimir Solovyov and Anton Krasovsky for war crimes and crimes against humanity under universal jurisdiction.

Real estate development company UAB Rinktinės NT has caused public outrage and attracted criticism from politicians for cutting down a hundred-year-old oak tree in Vilnius city centre.

A group of legislators from the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party (TS-LKD) proposes that criminal liability would apply for publicly supporting or denying Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and occupation of Ukraine’s territory, including Crimea.

On Friday, the Seimas’ Committee on National Security and Defence (NSGK) discussed the malicious activities of bots on social networks and outlined proposals to fight misinformation spread by fake automated accounts.

Lithuania's Prosecutor General Evaldas Pasilis has launched a pre-trial investigation into crimes against humanity under a complaint by Belarusian citizen Maxim Khoroshin, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday imposed harsher penalties for those flouting coronavirus quarantine rules but did not back the government's proposal to increase prison sentences if a person's guilt for spreading the virus is proved.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Justice unveiled Thursday its proposal to decriminalize less serious economic, financial and property crimes, making them subject only to administrative liability.

The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday an amendment to the Criminal Code that details the president's right to pardon a convict involved in a spy swap deal.

David Irving, a British historian convicted of denying the Holocaust, has been banned from entering Lithuania.

A criminal case in which four people are charged with disturbing a religious service at a church in the southeastern district of Salcininkai last year has been sent to a court, prosecutors said on Thursday.

The Vilnius Prosecutor's Office has closed a pre-trial investigation into allegations of sexual harassment at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA).

Defendants in a mass trial related to the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius must be given severe prison sentences and pay over 11.3 million euros in damages in a civil lawsuit, public prosecutors from the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday.

Public prosecutors from the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday started delivering their concluding statements in a mass trial related to the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius.

Lithuanian prosecutors on Monday launched a pre-trial investigation regarding an alleged libel against MP Mykolas Majauskas, who was publicly accused in a TV program of sexual misconduct.

Around 100 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament on Saturday to protest against strict punishments against possession of small amounts of cannabis. Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis believes it is a grave crime and laws should not be mitigated.