For sale: CIA ‘black site’ where terror suspects were tortured in Lithuania

Government prepares to sell barn known as Project No 2 or Detention Site Violet, which has windowless, soundproof rooms

A menacing steel barn outside the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius where CIA terror suspects were once held in solitary confinement, subjected to constant light and high-intensity noise, is soon to go on the market.

The government’s real estate fund, which handles assets no longer needed by the state, said on Monday it was preparing to sell the notorious former “black site”, known as Project No 2 or Detention Site Violet, for an as-yet unknown price.

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This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.