A controversial debate is about to engulf Lithuanian society, whose parliament, the Seimas, has taken legislative steps toward following the Swedish approach to sex work — legal for the seller of sex; a criminal act for the buyer. Baltic Times correspondent Rokas M. Tracevskis reports.
VILNIUS — Late in the evening on Dec. 16, 33 Lithuanian MPs gathered in the almost empty parliament and passed a resolution proposing that the cabinet of ministers of Lithuania present a law draft criminalising clients of prostitutes (by making it a crime included in Lithuania&r...
The article you requested can be accessed only by subscribing to the online version of The Baltic Times. If you are already subscribed to The Baltic Times, please authorize yourself.
In case you don't have a subscription yet - please visit our
SUBSCRIPTION section