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.
Central Intelligence Agency EN
30 straipsnių
Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabia-born Palestinian being detained in a US military base, will likely be informed on Thursday about the European Court of Human Rights' final ruling that he was was illegally held in a secret CIA prison in Lithuania more than a decade ago.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday rejected the Lithuanian government appeal and upheld the ruling that the country hosted a secret CIA prison in 2005-2006 where Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabia-born Palestinian, was held there over his suspected involvement in terrorism.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday rejected the Lithuanian government request to reconsider the court's judgment that the country hosted a secret CIA prison more than a decade ago.
The United States has declined to provide information to Lithuanian prosecutors in their investigation into a suspected secret CIA prison near Vilnius.
A panel of five judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is due to hold a sitting on Monday to decide whether or not to accept the Lithuanian government's request to reconsider the court's judgment that the country hosted a secret CIA prison more than a decade ago.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is likely to decide next week whether or not to accept the Lithuanian government request to reconsider the court's judgment that the country hosted a secret CIA prison more than a decade ago.
In December 2014 Barack Obama's administration warned Lithuania about a forthcoming US Senate report on secret CIA prisons.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that law-enforcement officials must use all possibilities to investigate the circumstances surrounding allegations that the country hosted a secret CIA detention site more than a decade ago.
The government has appealed the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that a Saudi Arabia-born Palestinian was unlawfully interrogated at a secret CIA detention site in Lithuania more than a decade ago.
It is up to the government to decide whether or not to appeal the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) ruling on the imprisonment of terror suspects at a secret CIA detention site in Lithuania more than a decade ago, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis admits that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is unlikely to change its ruling on the imprisonment of terror suspects at a secret CIA detention site in Lithuania more than a decade ago.
Lithuania's judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Wednesday that the Strasbourg-based court's facts on a secret CIA detention site near Vilnius are quite convincing and cannot be contested.
The Lithuanian government has changed its position and decided to appeal against the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that the country hosted a secret CIA detention site.
The Lithuanian government has decided not to appeal against the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that Lithuania hosted a secret CIA detention facility.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on Lithuania to fully investigate suspicions that a secret CIA prison operated in Lithuania.
The Lithuanian government's representative at the European Court of Human Rights has started consultations with the justice and foreign ministers one whether to appeal the ECHR's ruling on the operation of a CIA prison in Lithuania.
The European Court of Human Rights' ruling on a CIA prison in Lithuania is "impracticable", Karolina Bubnytė, the Lithuanian government's representative at the ECHR, says.
