Member of the European Parliament Leonidas Donskis spent Thursday focusing on human rights issues in Asia. He attended a hearing on the human rights situation in Southeast Asia and China in the Sub-committee on Human Rights, of which L. Donskis is a member and the coordinator for his political group. Later the MEP met with human rights defenders from this region. (Suite...)

The Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Leonidas Donskis, Director of the Civil Society Institute Darius Kuolys and Director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute Henrikas Mickevičius ask the Lithuanian Prosecutor General Darius Valys to remove the Public Prosecutor Justas Laucius from Eglė Kusaitė’s case interrogation and to launch an investigation on the validity and legitimacy of his actions in this case. (Suite...)

Recently, a question what the basis unifying EU family members is, has became louder and louder in the European public. (Suite...)

Yesterday, the last plenary session in the first year of the EP 2009 – 2014 term finished in Strasbourg. Before summer holidays, Members of the Parliament (MEPs) have discussed Spain’s working results which has just finished its Presidency of the Council of Ministers and have named the main challenges for Belgium which has taken over the Presidency, have welcomed Iceland’s EU membership bid and have further discussed issues of the new agriculture policy, boat passengers, Baltic Sea region and other topics.

Baltic Sea region – new opportunities for Lithuania (Suite...)

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Leonidas Donskis, Director of the Civil Society Institute Darius Kuolys and Director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute Henrikas Mickevičius have submitted a second letter to Director of the State Security Department Gediminas Grina asking about possible human rights violations during investigation of the Klaipėda inhabitant`s Eglė Kusaitė case. 11 questions have been submitted to the SSD Director hoping that they can contribute to the internal investigation the SSD plans to launch. (Suite...)

The Member of the European Parliament L. Donskis, Director of the Civil Society Institute Darius Kuolys and Director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute Henrikas Mickevičius have received an answer from the Director of the State Security Department Gediminas Grina to the request submitted last week to launch investigation on the information appeared in public last week on the last month`s interrogation of Eglė Kusaitė which possibly involved Russian officials and serious breaches of the suspect`s rights. (Suite...)