Abu Zubaydah v Lithuania (Application No 46454/11)

Briefed on 7th September 2021

The case concerns violations of a number of Convention rights on account of the fact that the applicant was the victim of an “extraordinary rendition” operation. The European Court found it established beyond reasonable doubt that Lithuania had hosted a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detention facility, code-named “Detention Site Violet” which operated from either 17 or 18 February 2005 until 25 March 2006 and that the applicant was secretly detained there during that period. He was subsequently transferred by the CIA out of Lithuania to another CIA detention site in Afghanistan and eventually to the United States (US) Internment Facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

The status of execution of the case by presented by Helen Duffy, counsel for Mr. Abu Zubaydah, Director at Human Rights in Practice.

Reference documents:

DH-DD(2021)781, Communication from an NGO (Human Rights in Practice) (28/07/2021) in the case of Abu Zubaydah v Lithuania (Application No. 46454/11)