ECCHR organizes conference on US secret prisons in Lithuania

European human rights lawyers got together on 22 March 2010 at a conference entitled „CIA ‚Extraordinary Rendition' Program: What´s next for Lithuania?" The conference took place at Vilnius University in the country's capital and involved discussions about the results of the Lithuanian Parliamentary Inquiry Committee. At the end of 2009, the Committee's report confirmed suspicions that two US-operated secret prisons had existed on Lithuanian soil. The participants of the conference attempted to find ways of initiating juridical steps towards a clarification of the facts and towards holding certain individuals involved criminally responsible. ECCHR's General Secretary, Wolfgang Kaleck spoke to the participants about the trials taking place to date in Europe against CIA agents and other European parties involved.

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ECCHR-study on CIA 'Extraordinary Rendition' flights, torture and accountability

In January 2009, the ECCHR published the second edition of their report "CIA 'Extraordinary Rendition' Flights, Torture and Accountability: A European Approach." The study provides an overview of legal proceedings and other judicial responses to CIA rendition flights in pertinent European countries such as Germany, Poland, Italy, and Spain, as well as in the U.S.

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