LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Auka; Pokomunistinės šalys; Prieiga prie bylų; Privatus gyvenimas; Teisė žinoti tiesą; Access to the files; Post-Communist countries; Private life; Right to know the truth; Victim.
ENThe right to know the truth is established as one of the rights constituting the right to effective remedy but in post-Communist countries this right is limited to victims of the Communist regime because of failure to access the files of former secret services on two different grounds: certain victim’s information is protected as personal data on the grounds of privacy rights and certain files are still kept as a classified information. Thus, the article analyses if such limitations in post- Communist countries are compatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The answer is provided using mainly an analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Lithuania as a case study was chosen for the analysis in a situation where certain files are kept as classified information. [From the publication]