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May 31, 2018

Lithuania/Romania: Ruling Highlights CIA Torture Complicity

The European Court of Human Rights on May 31, 2018 issued two key judgments that underscore the ongoing impunity for European complicity with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterterrorism abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.

Terrorism / Counterterrorism

May 31, 2018 News Release

Lithuania/Romania: Ruling Highlights CIA Torture Complicity
Children's Rights

June 20, 2016 Commentary

Assuring Lithuania’s UN Legacy

Bede Sheppard
Deputy Director, Children's Rights Division

Published In: The Lithuania Tribune
Free Speech

September 18, 2015 News Release

Lithuania: Latvian Activist Barred From Visiting

News

March 8, 2017 Letter

Civil Society Letter to Heads of State and Government on EU Response to the Refugee Crisis
June 11, 2015 News Release

Lithuania: Include Same-Sex Couples in Partnership Bill
June 10, 2015 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter to the Lithuanian Minister of Justice Regarding Equal Rights in Relationship Legislation
January 21, 2014 News Release

EU: Much Talk on Rights, Few Results
June 25, 2013 News Release

Lithuania: Reopen Investigation Into Secret CIA Prisons
January 31, 2013 News Release

EU: Human Rights Sidelined Amid Crisis
October 17, 2012 Commentary

‘Traditional Values’ code for human rights abuse?

Graeme Reid
Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: CNN.com
September 1, 2010 Impact

Defending LGBT Rights Worldwide
December 8, 2009 News Release

Lithuania: Reject Homophobic Law Proposal
December 7, 2009 Letter

Letter to the Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture of the Seimas
July 13, 2009 News Release

Lithuania: Don’t Revive Censorship Law
July 10, 2009 Letter

Letter for Lithuania's Speaker of the Seimas

Daily Brief

August 21, 2018

The moral and legal reasons to ban killer robots; Ugandan military caught on camera beating a Reuters journalist; torture of returning refugees in Myanmar; online jokes are no laughing matter in Russia; arrests and detentions of journalists and activists in Nigeria; and why did America's National Basketball Association set up a training center in China's notorious "no rights" zone?