January 29, 2014 - Vilnius Regional Court has ruled prosecutors unfoundedly refused to launch a pre-trial investigation into claims a Saudi Arabian citizen was kept in a secret CIA detention center in Lithuania in 2004-2006.The court backed non-governmental organisations’ claims that prosecutors hastily refused to open a probe, but stressed that “it has no mandate to order prosecutors to launch a pre-trial investigation”.
The court believes that before making a categorical conclusion that there was no crime committed, the prosecutor should have tried to question Saudi Arabian citizen Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, currently kept in detention in Guantanamo, and send requests to US institutions. read more>>>
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