Lithuania: Egle Kusaite demands to stop tapping her phone conversations

Today, Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania, accused of preparing a terror act in the territory of Russia, has filed a lawsuit with a demand to stop tapping her telephone conversations.

"Today, Egle Kusaite has lodged a claim to the court asking to cancel the sanction to tap her phones and searching her aunt's home. During one of recent searches Egle was deprived of her mobile phone, from which she had allegedly sent an SMS-message with threats to prosecutor Eustace Lauchyus," Vitautas Mezrikaitis, a Lithuanian journalist and a human rights activist from the Lithuanian public association "Save all Chechen children", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to his story, today, on April 18, the Kusaite's complaint was to be considered by Judge Vladislavas Lenchikas from the Vilnius Regional Court.

"Two prosecutors - Lauchyus and Ingrida Galyauskaite, who run different investigations, were present at today's session; however, the court could not consider Kusaite's complaint, because her advocate Rolandas Tamashauskas could not come to the session from Siauliai," said Mr Mezrikaitis.

He noted that according to the above prosecutors, the Kusaite's complaint could be considered without her advocate; however, the judge decided to reappoint the session on April 26. 

"Today, right after the session, Egle Kusaite has refuted the information that appeared in some media that she was an agent of the Department of State Security of Lithuania (VSD).'I've never been a VSD agent; and only after my detention I learnt that I had been surrounded by VSD agents,' she told journalists," Mr Mezrikaitis has quoted Egle.

Today, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt from his source close to the Kusaite's litigation that her criminal case files have been added with the names of well-known Russian journalists and rights defenders who had contacts with her last year. According to the source, the printouts of those phone calls were also attached to the files.