Reuters July 16, 2013 - 16:28 By Christian Lowe and Andrius Sytas WARSAW/VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lawyers for a man who alleges he was held in a secret CIA jail in Lithuania have accused the Baltic state of failing to give proper answers to judges considering the case at the European Court of Human Rights. Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah alleges that he was held, seven years ago, in Lithuania as part of a global CIA programme to detain and interrogate suspected al Qaeda operatives. Abu Zubaydah, now an inmate at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, has asked the Strasbourg-based court to rule that Lithuania acted illegally. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has agreed to consider...
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