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VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuanian prosecutors won’t reopen a probe into whether two CIA prisons built in the Baltic country held prisoners, despite new information provided by human rights organizations, they said Friday.
Human rights groups Amnesty International and Reprieve last month claimed that al-Qaida suspect Abu Zubaydah was flown on a Boeing 737 from Morocco to Lithuania in February 2005 — a flight previously unknown to Lithuanian authorities.
Officials from the organizations called on prosecutors to reopen their investigation, which they closed in January for lack of evidence.
Reprieve said that it had supplied prosecutors with names of individuals — including CIA officials, Lithuanian handlers, and eyewitnesses — who could provide testimony about the flight from Morocco.
But the General Prosecutor’s office said in a statement Friday that the new information was neither significant nor essential to the case.
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