"It's old news. I am glad that they have finally read the information contained in concluded investigations - as this information, showing that one destination was indicated while the final destination was different, and flights were camouflaged, is already known. Perhaps they found some other document showing that some flight data were wrong, but that does not change or in some significant way add to our investigation conclusions," Anusauskas told BNS.
The Vilnius-based Human Rights Monitoring Institute said on Monday that Reprieve had provided new flight data-related evidence to the European Court of Human Rights, updating information on circumstances in Abu Zubaydah's case against Lithuania.
"The published documents show that flight operators – aviation companies contracted by the CIA – would falsify flight itineraries and would switch planes in the middle of the itinerary in order to disguise the real destination. False information about itineraries would be also provided to the Lithuanian civil aviation institutions. It was this false information that the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense later based its parliamentary investigation into CIA activities in Lithuania on," the statement says.
It also adds that the parliamentary probe conclusions state that an N733MA plane contracted by the CIA landed in Palanga on 25 March 2006 and left for Porto in Portugal. But in reality this plane, owned by Computer Sciences Corporation, landed in Cairo, Egypt. Meanwhile another plane hired by the CIA from the same company waited there and soon left for Kabul, Afghanistan.
"This flight information matches previously published information that the secret CIA detention center in Lithuania was closed in early 2006 and the prisoners were moved to Afghanistan," the statement said.
"As I said, it's old news. Finally, if they think they have some new information, they can provide it to prosecutors for the investigation to be resumed," Anušauskas said.
Lithuanian prosecutors carried out an investigation into alleged existence of CIA prisons in Lithuania but dropped it in 2011 having concluded that there was no basis for criminal prosecution.
Their probe followed a request by the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense, which, following 2009 reports in the US media about an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania, carried out its own investigation. It established that planes linked to the rendition of people detained by the CIA in official investigations crossed the Lithuanian airspace on numerous occasions in 2002-2005.
The investigation established that there were conditions created in Lithuania for bringing CIA detainees into the country and taking them out of the country, but it did not find evidence that any suspected terrorists were actually brought to Lithuania.
