Lithuania’s alleged complicity in the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programme remained under scrutiny. LGBTI people continued to face discrimination. Measures taken in response to the COVID-19 virus negatively affected women.

The Supreme Administrative Court in Vilnius, Lithuania, ruled today (7 May 2010) that Baltic Pride will go ahead tomorrow. 350 people are expected to take part in the march on Saturday 8 May, including over 50 Amnesty International activists from more than 20 countries. Security threats emanating...

Following a court decision to suspend the 2010 Baltic Pride, hundreds of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists, including over 50 Amnesty International members from over 20 countries, risk being prevented from marching in Lithuania’s first ever Pride march, scheduled to...

On 14 June, Lithuania’s Parliament voted to overturn the Presidential veto of the “Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information”. The law institutionalizes homophobia and violates the right to freedom of expression and the right to be free from...

On 14 July, the Lithuanian parliament will vote whether to overturn a Presidential veto on a law that will institutionalize homophobia, violating the right to freedom of expression and the right to be free from discrimination.

On 26 June, Lithuania’s President vetoed a law which includes an amendment institutionalizing homophobia, violating the right to freedom of expression and the right to be free from discrimination.

On 16 June 2009, the Lithuanian parliament (The Seimas) passed a law which includes an amendment which institutionalizes homophobia, violates the right to freedom of expression and the right to be free from discrimination. The President has ten days to decide whether or not to veto the law. Should...

AI fears that the above may be executed within the coming week.

AI has learned with deep regret that Boris Dekanidze was executed on 12 July 1995.

Boris Dekanidze was sentenced to death in November 1994 for ordering the murder of an investigative journalist. In February 1995 the Lithuanina Supreme Court decided not to review his sentence. On 11 May the President rejected his final appeal for clemency. There are fears that his execution may be...

On 18 February the procuracy of the Lithuanian republic released further information on a man who died of a heart attack during the events of 13 January 1991 in Vilnius, in which reportedly peaceful unarmed demonstrators were killed by Soviet troops. It is now known that Alvidas Matulka suffered a...

On 14 January 1991 Lithuanian authorities released information on 14 people, including one Soviet soldier, said to have died the day before when Soviet troops moved against demonstrators outside the television centre in the republican capital of Vilnius. One is said to have suffered a heart attack,...

Amnesty International is concerned at reports that up to 13 peaceful, unarmed demonstrators were killed by Soviet troops in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on 13 January 1990.