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Refusal to Prosecute Author for Insulting Historical Legacy "Correct", Court Finds

The Vilnius Regional Court has found that prosecutors correctly refused to launch an investigation into Marius Ivaškevičius's novel "Žali", and that prosecuting the author for his postmodernist work was impermissible in a democracy.

Lithuania , freedom of expression , court , partisans , literature , Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize
April 15, 2019 • Human Rights Monitoring Institute
Lithuania: Soviet Repression Deemed Genocide

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the view of the national courts by ruling that partisans played a key role in protecting Lithuanian identity and that their systematic killing during the Soviet era should be considered genocide.

Lithuania , ECtHR , ECHR , European Convention of Human rights , European Court of Human Rights , USSR , partisans
April 02, 2019 • Human Rights Monitoring Institute
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