Lithuania will not extradite Tikhanovskaya to Belarus, says deputy FM
LRT.lt2021.03.04 10:49
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya / E. Blaževič/LRT
Lithuania will not extradite Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to Belarus, the country s Deputy Foreign Minister Mantas Adomėnas told DW, adding that any request from the regime would be “a purely performative act”.
The Belarusian Investigative Committee said earlier this week it had prepared documents for making the request to extradite Tikhanovskaya, who has been living in Vilnius since last August.
However, it will not be granted, as Lithuania regards the case against her political persecution, Deputy Foreign Minister Mantas Adomėnas told Deutsche Welle earlier this week.
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Lithuanian MP says Jews took part in Holocaust, draws widespread condemnation
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MP Valdas Rakutis / BNS
Lithuanian MP Valdas Rakutis from the ruling conservative Homeland Union party has drawn rebukes from ambassadors as well as fellow party members for his op-ed published on Wednesday, where he claimed that there was no shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among the Jews themselves .
The country’s foriegn minister and head of the party, Gabrielius Landsbergis, expressed outrage over Rakutis’ claims. I [.] am very angry at the lack of adequacy and understanding, the minister said in a comment sent to BNS. The parliamentarian s opinion has nothing to do either with my position or with the principles that the party I represent or the government I work in adhere to.