Pedophilia case provokes street protests

Feb 03, 2010
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

VILNIUS - On the evening of Jan. 29, some 50 people in front of the prosecutors’ office in Kaunas and some 40 people in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Vilnius gathered for a protest demonstration, organized via the Internet, against the decision of prosecutor Ramunas Sileika in the alleged pedophilia case. On the evening of Feb. 1, the same demonstrations repeated themselves in both of Lithuania’s biggest cities. Sileika decided to drop serious charges agai ...

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