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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she sees no need to resume parliamentary investigation into an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania, but calls on law enforcement agencies to continue their separate probe.

The Lithuanian Parliament was proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission and to investigate and assess charges against Lithuania for its purported participation in the secret CIA prison programme. Meanwhile Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday it had sent a legal assistan...

Lithuanian State Security Department chief Gediminas Grina told parliament on Tuesday he could not give any new answers about the US Central Intelligence Agency's secret prisons.

The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to summon the head of the country's State Security Department, Gediminas Grina, over suspicions that a secret CIA prison, mentioned in the recently-published US Senate's report on detention and torture of suspected terrorists, could have operated in Lithuan...

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has set up a special group for investigation of all data about the alleged prison of the US Central Intelligence Agency in Lithuania for interrogation of suspected terrorists, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Lithuania and other European Union (EU) countries must carry out independent investigations into the allegations of having hosted secret US detention centres for interrogation of suspected terrorists, the European Commission said.

Lithuania's ruling Order and Justice Party is summoning the State Security Department's chief Gediminas Grina before parliament to give an explanation about the US Central Intelligence Agency's “violet” detention site near Vilnius mentioned in the US Senate's report.

Mečys Laurinkus, who headed Lithuania's State Security Department in 1998-2004, says that the institution assisted the United States in its counter-terrorism efforts during the period, but did not ask for a reward and did not violate laws or international commitments.

The European Parliament will next week discuss the report published by the United States Senate earlier this week about detention of suspected terrorists in secret CIA centres, including one allegedly on the Lithuanian soil.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said he hopes prosecutors will investigate reports that a secret CIA detention site could have been operated in Lithuania in 2005-2006.

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The Prosecutor's General Office has said on Wednesday it will ask the United States government for additional information about secret detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists abroad.

Lithuania's former president Valdas Adamkus says he was assured by security officials that Lithuania did not host a secret CIA detention centre for suspected terrorists.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said on Wednesday that the reports on alleged CIA-operated prison in Lithuania will have to be investigated by the Prosecutor General's Office, and if the information proves correct, Lithuania will have to take responsibility.

The release of redacted summary of US Senate's investigation into the CIA's detention and interrogation programme, which allegedly included secret overseas detention sites, has caused some stir the world and Lithuania.

The United States had notified Lithuania in advance of the publication of the Senate report about prisoner torturing performed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in secret detention centres, including one possibly in Lithuania.

The US Senate's recently-published report on the CIA detention and interrogation programme could trigger a rise in terrorist activity, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says.