Human Rights Monitoring Institute

July 19th, 2010 the International Human Rights Law Summer Study (IHRLSS) starts in Vilnius. Two-week intensive program providing comprehensive exposure to International Human Rights Law will host 31 students from 6 countries.

Today Leonidas Donskis, MEP, Darius Kuolys, Director of the Civil Society Institute, and Henrikas Mickevičius, Executive Director of the HRMI, addressed Darius Valys, the Prosecutor General, again. They request removal of prosecutor Justas Laucius from investigation of Eglė Kusaitė case, and internal investigation into his activities.

Prosecutor Justas Laucius denied HRMI a meeting with a terrorist suspect Egle Kusaite. Henrikas Mickevičius was not permitted to meet the young woman that has allegedly been interrogated by Russian Federal Security Service applying coercion and violence.

Leonidas Donskis, MEP, Darius Kuolys, Director of the Civil Society Institute (CSI), and Henrikas Mickevičius, Executive Director of the HRMI, have submitted 11 questions to the Head of the State Security Department (SSD) Gediminas Grina, which are expected to contribute to an investigation, Grina is about to initiate.

HRMI organized a one-day training for public servants of Vilnius Municipality and police officers on the right to freedom of assembly.