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VILNIUS, February 25 (Itar-Tass) - Lithuania has again lost in the Strasbourg-based European Court for Human Rights. Siauliai prison inmate Ramunas Jankavuskas sued Lithuania for censorship of private letters. A representative of the Lithuanian government failed to explain to the court why a democracy would want to check private letters of a convict, the court resolution says. The court said that the prison administration had flagrantly violated Article 8 of the Human Rights and Freedoms Convention, which binds a government to respect private life. The court said that the Siauliai prison personnel had illegally censored over 360 letters to and...