KEDIENĖ v. LITHUANIA

• ECLI: ECLI:CE:ECHR:2022:0927DEC004430919
• Court: Second Section Committee (European Court of Human Rights)
• Date: 27 September 2022
• Application Number: 44309/19
• Respondent State: Lituania
• Applied Rules: 6;6-1;7;35

SECOND SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 44309/19
Laimutė KEDIENĖ
against Lithuania

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting
on 27 September 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Branko Lubarda, President,

Jovan Ilievski,

Diana Sârcu, judges,
and Dorothee von Arnim, Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to:

the application (no. 44309/19) against the Republic of Lithuania lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on 14 August 2019 by a Lithuanian national, Ms Laimutė Kedienė, who was born in 1943 and lives in Teleičiai village (“the applicant”);

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

1. The case concerns the applicant’s complaints notably under Article 6 of the Convention about the length and fairness of the criminal proceedings in which she was convicted for sexual molestation of a minor. The applicant’s conviction was a follow-up to high-profile criminal and custody-related proceedings, which had been examined by the Court in the judgment of Stankūnaitė v. Lithuania, no. 67068/11, 29 October 2019. The applicant in the present case is the mother of the late D.K. (see ibid.).

2. By a judgment of 15 February 2018 the Kaunas...