The Vilnius Prosecutor's Office has closed a pre-trial investigation into allegations of sexual harassment at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA).
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Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to form an ad hoc commission at the parliament to scrutinize the sexual misconduct allegations against MP Mykolas Majauskas.
The head of Vilnius Women's House, a non-governmental organization running a crisis centre for women, has called on the Lithuanian parliament to ratify the so-called Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, saying that it would help fight sexual h...
Lithuanian National Culture and Arts Prize winner, photographer Gintautas Trimakas, who has been accused of unacceptable behaviour toward female students, is leaving the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA).
Vilnius prosecutors will look into the public reports about possible sexual harassment after instructions from Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis to scrutinize all legal circumstances of the events.
Ethics watchdogs of the senate of the Vilnius Academy of Art is looking into student complaints over possibly unethical conduct of three of the academy's lecturers.
The Ethics Committee of the Senate of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, or VDA, is holding a meeting on Thursday to discuss sexual harassment allegations against two of its lecturers.
Jonas Gasiūnas, professor at the Vilnius Academy of Art and National Prize winner, is stepping down after anonymous accusations of sexually exploiting his female students, lrytas.lt news portal said.
Allegations that Jonas Gasiūnas, a professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts, prominent painter and Lithuanian National Culture and Arts Prize laureate, sexually abused female students should be probed by law-enforcement bodies, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday.
Audrius Klimas, the rector of Vilnius Academy of Arts, or VDA, says that Professor Jonas Gasiūnas has been suspended for two weeks following reports that he allegedly sexually abused female students.
