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CIA Slammed for Torture Abuses at Secret Lithuanian Prisons
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2012
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2012, page 28
Despite a lawsuit filed in the European Court of Human Rights by Saudi-born alleged terrorist Abu Zubaydah, Lithuanian prosecutors have declined to pursue charges related to two CIA-operated prisons located in that country. Human rights groups Amnesty International and Reprieve have claimed, according to the Associated Press, that Zubaydah was ...
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
International,
International Law,
Political Prisoners (International),
Terrorism.
Location:
Lithuania.
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