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.

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.