“We don’t want Belarus to become an information black hole”
Press freedom experts met in Lithuania to discuss Belarus’s ongoing crackdown on independent media, which has seen approximately 400 journalists forced into exile and 32 still behind bars.
RSF asks Lithuanian prosecutors to investigate Lukashenko for hijacking Ryanair flight
“We decided to file a complaint against Alexander Lukashenko himself because he was the direct instigator of this act of hijacking for terrorist purposes, and the term is not excessive.”
Tajik activist brutally attacked in Lithuania
Ilhomjon Yakubov is the former head of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and is living in exile in Lithuania. The assault is the latest in a long line of what appear to be politically-motivated attacks on critics of the Tajikistan government.
Lithuania removes insult articles from criminal code
The repeal of the two insult articles came after IPI and ARTICLE 19 conducted a joint mission to Lithuania, urging lawmakers to bring the country’s defamation law more in line with international standards.
Lithuania’s defamation reform bill doesn’t go far enough
A defamation reform bill pending before the Lithuanian Parliament would constitute a welcome step in the right direction, but should be further amended to meet international standards, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Article 19 said, following a joint two-day mission to Lithuania.
Intelligence services tapped phones of 17 news agency journalists in Lithuania
The Lithuanian intelligence services tapped the phones of at least 17 journalists with Vilnius-based Baltic News Services on a prosecutor’s orders in 2013 and 2014, it was learned this month. Officials also questioned journalists and seized computers in a bid to identify the source of a leak.
Ban on information about sexual orientation would endanger youth, says Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch urges Parliament to reject law proposal forbidding public information that encourages homosexual relations.
Lithuanian law outlawing mockery draws protests
WAN-IFRA calls on European governments to help ensure that Lithuania respects freedom of the press following approval of law that makes it a crime to ridicule someone.
Human Rights Watch asks parliament not to revive censorship law
The Lithuanian parliament should not revive a proposed law that had been vetoed by the president, to ban references to gay, lesbian, and bisexual relations in public places, Human Rights Watch said.
Concern over law banning public references to sexual orientation
Human Rights Watch asks government to veto proposed law that would ban references to gay, lesbian, and bisexual relations in public places.
Freedom of the Press 2007: Lithuania
Freedom of the Press 2007: Lithuania
Regulatory body bans broadcast of “Voice of Russia” programme by private radio station in Vilnius
(WPFC/IFEX) – The following is a 27 December 2007 WPFC letter to the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania: Open letter to the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania The World Press Freedom Committee is very concerned by a recent decision, by a vote of 11-1 of Lithuania’s Radio and Television Commission, to “protect” Lithuanian […]
Newspaper issue seized; editor briefly detained; newsroom, editor’s home searched and hard drives confiscated
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 8 September 2006 CPJ press release: Lithuanian security agents seize all copies of newspaper Paper was to report on alleged political corruption New York, September 8, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores Lithuanian security agents’ seizure of all 15,000 copies of the semimonthly Laisvas Laikrastis (Free Newspaper), […]
Kremlin pressures Lithuania to close pro-Chechen website
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 September 2004 CPJ press release: KREMLIN PRESSURES LITHUANIA TO CLOSE PRO-CHECHEN WEB SITE New York, September 21, 2004-Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) closed the pro-Chechen Web site KavkazCenter on Friday after coming under intense pressure from the Kremlin, according to local and international press reports. The closure came […]