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Secret CIA prison case: Lithuania transfers compensation to prisoner

Lithuania has transferred European Court of Human Rights Abu Dubai, who is suspected of involvement in the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and was held in secret detention in the United States in 2005 and 2006, Central Intelligence Offices (CIA) in a prison near Vilnius.

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As the BNS news agency informed Ministry of Justice, the compensation was paid at the end of last year, when the “apostille” mark certifying that Abu Zubaida ‘s power of attorney to claim his representative was genuine.

A Strasbourg court hearing a claim against Lithuania from Saudi-born Palestinian-born Palestinian Zubaid in 2018 found that a secret CIA prison operated in Lithuania in 2005 and 2006 and ruled that Lithuania should pay € 100,000 in compensation for Aruba’s arbitrary detention. and a further € 30,000 to be paid by the lawyer representing them.

Richard Dzikovič, a spokesman for the ministry, had previously stated that Zubaid’s lawyer had already submitted the power of attorney, but according to the provisions of the law, he had to receive confirmation that the power of attorney was genuine.

Lithuania had previously set up a deposit account with a notary and transferred EUR 130 000 to it, informing the applicant’s representative before the European Court of Human Rights that the funds had been transferred and could be claimed.

As reported, US Senate In December 2014, a report on CIA secret detention centers was published. Human rights activists believe that one of the centers mentioned in the report, referred to in the document as the “purple center”, was located in Antaviļi, near Vilnius, from 2004 to 2006.

Lithuania has so far not acknowledged that a secret CIA prison had operated in the country, explaining that the Americans had not transported prisoners to Lithuania, but communications equipment and an intelligence support center had been set up in a building 15 km from Vilnius, which is mentioned as a possible prison location. , but these premises have never been used for that purpose.

In 2009, the National Security and Defense Committee of the Lithuanian Seimas investigated the possible location of CIA prisons in Lithuania and did not find that CIA prisoners had actually been transferred to Lithuania, but acknowledged that the conditions were there.

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