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Lithuanian anti-gay MPs are to remain immune from prosecution (Photo: Wikipedia)

Lithuanian parliament protects anti-gay MPs from prosecution

The Lithuanian parliament has voted to protect from prosecution two MPs implicated in violence directed towards a gay-pride parade.

In June this year, the country's prosecutor general requested that the parliament strip Kazimieras Uoka of the centre-right Homeland Union and Christian Democrats, Lithuania's largest political party, and Petras Gražulis, of the Order and Justice Party, a self-declared liberal party but sharply opposed to gay rights, of their parliamentary immunity after th...

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Lithuanian anti-gay MPs are to remain immune from prosecution (Photo: Wikipedia)

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