On Tuesday, the ECHR sentenced Mustafa al-Hawsawi to 100,000. euros as a result of unlawful imprisonment that came regarding 20 years in the past, allegedly in a secret jail of the US Central Intelligence Company (CZA) in Lithuania.
“As soon as the choice has come into impact, three months following the publication of the choice, that’s, on April 16, the Lithuanian establishments will take the mandatory measures with a purpose to correctly implement the ECtHR’s determination, together with the cost of the financial compensation awarded to the applicant,” Paulius Žeimys, press consultant of the Minister of Justice, instructed BNS.
The Ministry has not but answered whether or not it’ll enchantment the ECtHR’s determination, that’s, it’ll request that the case be transferred to the Grand Chamber of the courtroom.
The ECHR awarded M. al Hawsawi from Lithuania 100,000. EUR, one other 30 thousand awarded to the non-governmental group “REDRESS” that represented him.
The courtroom discovered that Lithuania, the place M. al Hawsawi was imprisoned, violated varied articles of the European Conference on Human Rights, for instance, prohibiting torture, guaranteeing the fitting to a good trial, to life, liberty and safety.
Based on the Ministry of Justice, the ECtHR discovered a violation because of the truth that Lithuania didn’t conduct an ample investigation into the actions allegedly taken in opposition to the applicant.
Lithuania can also be held chargeable for the truth that M. al Hawsawi faces the specter of the demise penalty the place he’s presently imprisoned.
The ECtHR additionally determined that, within the context of this case, Lithuania has an obligation to use to the USA with a purpose to remove or cut back the human rights violations presently being dedicated in opposition to M. al Hawsawi.
Lithuania can also be obliged to make sure that the applicant just isn’t executed. As well as, Lithuania was instructed to instantly take the mandatory energetic steps within the pre-trial investigation being carried out within the nation.
Mr. al-Hawsawi is presently being held at Guantanamo Bay. He was arrested in 2003 in Pakistan. The US says he might have contributed to the 9/11 assaults.
The ECHR discovered that the person was imprisoned in Lithuania in 2005-2006.
This was the second case within the Strasbourg courtroom relating to the alleged CŽA jail, each of which Lithuania misplaced.
In 2018, the European Courtroom of Human Rights already said {that a} secret CŽA jail operated in Lithuania in 2005-2006 and one other Saudi citizen, Abu Zubaydah, was imprisoned there.
On Tuesday, the ECtHR indicated that the proof collected within the case of A. Zubaydah in opposition to Lithuania and different comparable circumstances of different international locations was additionally used throughout the examination of Mr. al Hawsawi’s case.
The primary reviews a couple of attainable CIA jail within the former equestrian base in Antaviliai appeared within the US media in 2009.
Further debate was sparked by a US Senate report revealed in 2014. It doesn’t identify particular facilities, however human rights defenders consider {that a} middle referred to as “purple” within the doc operated in Lithuania. The ECtHR additionally relied on this proof.
It had been working since early 2005, in line with a US Senate report, and was closed in 2006 following native officers refused to confess Mr al-Hawsawi to a neighborhood hospital.
Lithuania claims that the services in Antavilais, close to Vilnius, weren’t imagined to be a jail, however an intelligence assist middle. The nation claims that the suspicious planes weren’t transporting individuals to Lithuania, however communication tools.
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2024-06-19 20:14:51
