VILNIUS - As the scandal surrounding President Rolandas Paksas has heated up, local lawyers and legal experts are questioning the human rights situation in the Baltic country, saying that actions of the special services are pushing it toward a police state.Accusations in a security services report at the end of October that Paksas' office had links with organized crime have raised serious questions about the status of rights in the country about to join the European Union."One can get the impression that nowadays all telephone conversations are tapped - in the belief that somebody some day ...
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