{"id":8676,"date":"2014-02-01T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/mustafa-al-hawsawi-case-a-right-to-be-free-from-torture\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:07:10","slug":"mustafa-al-hawsawi-case-a-right-to-be-free-from-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/mustafa-al-hawsawi-case-a-right-to-be-free-from-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustafa al-Hawsawi case – a right to be free from torture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“This judgement is of great significance on national as well as international level. It is a huge step forward in protecting human rights Lithuania.”<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

–\u00a0M\u0117ta Adutavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, HRMI Advocacy Officer<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Proceedings initiated: <\/strong>2013<\/p>\n

Proceedings closed:<\/strong>\u00a0not closed yet<\/p>\n

Case in brief:\u00a0<\/strong>one of the CIA Extraordinary Rendition Programme’s victims might have been held in Lithuania<\/p>\n

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Facts of the case:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mustafa al-Hawsawi <\/a>is a Saudi national who was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan\u00a0on 1 March 2003. He was held in secret CIA detention for the next three-and-a-half years, before being transferred to military detention in Guantnamo Bay in September 2006, where he is still being held. The US Government alleges that al-Hawsawi is a ‘senior al-Qaida member who supported al-Qaeda’s terrorist network as a facilitator, financial manager, and media committee member’, and who also supported the movement and funding of the 9\/11 hijackers into the US.<\/p>\n

The publicly available evidence indicates that\u00a0al-Hawsawi was one of the so-called “high-value detainees” subjectedto treatment amounting to\u00a0torture and detained in different locations (including, allegedly, Lithuania), within the CIA\u2019s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) Programme\u00a0from 2003 until 2006.<\/p>\n

Legal proceedings:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In September 2013,\u00a0Human Rights Monitoring Institute<\/strong>\u00a0and REDRESS submitted a complaint with prosecutors calling for an investigation into the allegations. On 2 October 2013 REDRESS and HRMI were informed of the Prosecutor’s decision not to open an investigation on the basis of the complaint. On 8 October 2013 REDRESS and HRMI filed an appeal against this decision. At first instance, the appeal was dismissed, but a further appeal was upheld by the Vilnius Regional Court on 28 January 2014.<\/p>\n

Vilnius Regional Court\u00a0found that prosecutors hastily refused to open an inquiry. The court believed that before making a categorical conclusion that there was no crime committed, the prosecutor should have tried to question al- Hawsawi, currently kept in detention in Guantanamo, and send requests to US institutions.<\/p>\n

Follow-up to the case:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In February 2014, the General Prosecutor’s Office opened the pre-trial investigation with respect to the circusmtances indicated in the HRMI and REDRESS request. The investigation is pending, however al-Hawsawi was not granted a status of the victim in the case.<\/p>\n

Case-files:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judgment of the Vilnius Regional Court (in Lithuanian)
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\n Other related documents (in English)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“This judgement is of great significance on national as well as international level. It is a huge step forward in protecting human rights Lithuania.” –\u00a0M\u0117ta Adutavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, HRMI Advocacy Officer Proceedings initiated: 2013 Proceedings closed:\u00a0not closed yet Case in brief:\u00a0one of the CIA Extraordinary Rendition Programme’s victims might have been held in Lithuania Facts of the …<\/p>\n

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