Following the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, Lithuania is changing its rules and will issue residence permits to foreigners who entered into same-sex marriages with Lithuanian citizens abroad.
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The Council of Europe may adopt a resolution in December, stating that Lithuania fails to meet its international obligation by not implementing the European Court of Human Rights' ruling on paving the way for Rolandas Paksas to stand as a candidate in elections.
A fresh attempt to lift a lifetime ban on Lithuania's impeached former president Rolandas Paksas to run in elections, as ordered by the European Court of Human Rights, fell through on Thursday.
Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabia-born Palestinian being detained in a US military base, will likely be informed on Thursday about the European Court of Human Rights' final ruling that he was was illegally held in a secret CIA prison in Lithuania more than a decade ago.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday rejected the Lithuanian government appeal and upheld the ruling that the country hosted a secret CIA prison in 2005-2006 where Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabia-born Palestinian, was held there over his suspected involvement in terrorism.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday rejected the Lithuanian government request to reconsider the court's judgment that the country hosted a secret CIA prison more than a decade ago.
The United States has declined to provide information to Lithuanian prosecutors in their investigation into a suspected secret CIA prison near Vilnius.
A panel of five judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is due to hold a sitting on Monday to decide whether or not to accept the Lithuanian government's request to reconsider the court's judgment that the country hosted a secret CIA prison more than a decade ago.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is likely to decide next week whether or not to accept the Lithuanian government request to reconsider the court's judgment that the country hosted a secret CIA prison more than a decade ago.
The Seimas of Lithuania has adopted a special resolution calling on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe not to restore the rights of the Russian delegation in this organization.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday made the first step towards bringing the hope of release to those sentenced to life imprisonment.
Rolandas Paksas, the former leader of Lithuania's Order and Justice party and now a MEP, say he plans to stand as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election in Lithuania next year, irrespective of any circumstances.
The Seimas has made another step towards opening the way for Lithuania's impeached former president Rolandas Paksas to stand as a candidate in elections.
The Seimas plans to debate on Thursday draft constitutional amendments that would pave the way for Lithuania's impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to stand as a candidate in elections.
In December 2014 Barack Obama's administration warned Lithuania about a forthcoming US Senate report on secret CIA prisons.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that law-enforcement officials must use all possibilities to investigate the circumstances surrounding allegations that the country hosted a secret CIA detention site more than a decade ago.
The government has appealed the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that a Saudi Arabia-born Palestinian was unlawfully interrogated at a secret CIA detention site in Lithuania more than a decade ago.
It is up to the government to decide whether or not to appeal the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) ruling on the imprisonment of terror suspects at a secret CIA detention site in Lithuania more than a decade ago, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis admits that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is unlikely to change its ruling on the imprisonment of terror suspects at a secret CIA detention site in Lithuania more than a decade ago.