Campaigners set up this display in Kudirkos Square in central Vilnius © Amnesty International
By Danny Vannucchi and May Carolan, with Amnesty International’s team in Vilnius
We arrived in Vilnius on Tuesday to launch a new report on secret prisons in Lithuania.
We had been preparing for this launch for many months. Since March we have been asking Amnesty International activists around the world to add their name to a global petition, asking the Lithuanian authorities to reopen an investigation into the country’s role in the US-led secret prison and rendition programme.
Rather than compiling a normal list of signatures, we asked people to sign their names to a closed padlock, representing the lack of accountability and the fact that only Lithuania itself can “unlock” the truth. Continuar leyendo ‘Unlocking the truth about Lithuania’s secret prisons’ »
