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.
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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.
In December 2014 Barack Obama's administration warned Lithuania about a forthcoming US Senate report on secret CIA prisons.
A lawyer for Mustafa al-Hawsawi, a Saudi citizen held in the Guantanamo Bay US detention facility, has asked a Vilnius court to grant victim status to her client because he could have been kept in a secret CIA black-site prison near Vilnius.
