VILNIUS - Vice-Minister of Justice Gintaras Svedas ensured the public that there were no prisons in Lithuania where the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency keeps and interrogates members of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.
"According to information available to me, there are no illegal secret prisons in Lithuania for sure," the vice-minister told the Baltic News Service.
Despite reports by The Washington Post that the CIA had been allegedly using secret prisons in Thailand, Afghanistan and some Eastern European states, Svedas said that Lithuania was not specifically mentioned.
High-ranking American and European special service officers have allegedly confirmed the information about secret prisons.
