Austria's release of a former KGB general allegedly responsible for the deaths of 14 people during Lithuania's independence protests in 1991 has outraged the Baltic state, which says the decision could affect future EU-level judicial cooperation.
"Imagine if Ratko Mladic [the Bosnian Serb general on trial for war crimes] was not extradited to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, due to a decision by a member state. Could that even be possible?" Lithuanian foreign minister Audr...
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