STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Lithuanian prosecutors have investigating whether a detainee at the U.S. Guantanamo naval base was transported through a secret CIA detention facility in the Baltic state, in only the second such criminal investigation in Europe.
Washington's so-called rendition programme is still shrouded in secrecy, around a decade after it ended. Washington has acknowledged it held al Qaeda suspects in jails outside U.S. jurisdiction, but it has not revealed where.
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