lestation or who opposed the violent removal of 
Deimante from Judge Venckiene. 
(17) Lithuania has leveled more than 35 
charges against Judge Venckiene, including charges 
for filing petitions on behalf of Deimante Kedyte 
with Lithuania’s courts and the Child’s Rights Om-
budsman, making statements critical of the inves-
tigation to journalists, describing in her book the 
sexual molestation case against and naming the pub-
lic officials, involvement in ‘‘unauthorized protests’’, 
‘‘humiliating the court’’, desecrating the national an-
them, conducting her own investigation into the 
case, failing to turn Deimante over to the accused 
mother, 
bruising 
an 
officer, 
and 
kicking 
at 
Deimante’s mother when the mother tried to remove 
Deimante. 
(18) The extradition treaty signed by the 
United States and the Republic of Lithuania on Oc-
tober 23, 2001, does not permit for Judge Venckiene 
to offer counter-evidence in United States court to 
any of Lithuania’s charges against her or to make 
the case for political motivation. 
(19) A United States Magistrate Judge in April 
2018 approved extradition for charges that Judge 
Venckiene hindered the activities of a bailiff, failed 
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to comply with a court’s decision not associated with 
a penalty, caused physical pain, and resisted against 
a civil servant or a person performing the functions 
of public administration—all charges related to 
Deimante 
Kedyte 
being 
taken 
from 
Judge 
Venckiene’s home and returned to the accused moth-
er. 
(20) Former political prisoners, as well as cur-
rent and former government officials in Lithuania 
have written to the United States Government, 
warning that the Lithuanian Government’s charges 
against Judge Venckiene are politically motivated. 
(21) The Chairman of the Supreme Court of 
Lithuania Gintaras Kryzevicius has been reported as 
publicly saying that Judge Venckiene ‘‘is an abscess 
in the legal system and an abscess in the political 
system’’ and ‘‘the trouble of the whole state’’. 
(22) Sweden, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Den-
mark, Malta, Ukraine, and Russia have all refused 
to extradite individuals to Lithuania. 
(23) Judge Venckiene can present evidence con-
cerning the political motivation of Lithuania’s 
charges against her before an immigration judge if 
she is excluded from the extradition treaty and al-
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lowed to proceed with her political asylum case, filed 
in 2013 and scheduled to be heard in July 2019. 
SEC. 3. EXCLUSION FROM EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN 
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE 
REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, Judge Neringa Venckiene shall be excluded 
from extradition under the Extradition Treaty Between 
the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the Republic of Lithuania, signed at 
Vilnius on October 23, 2001, and entered into force on 
March 31, 2003 (as amended by the Protocol on the Appli-
cation of the Agreement on Extradition between the 
Unites States of America and the European Union to the 
Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Republic 
of Lithuania, signed at Brussels on June 15, 2005, and 
entered into force on February 1, 2010), and excluded 
from all other laws allowing for her extradition to Lith-
uania. 
(b) POLITICAL ASYLUM.—Judge Neringa Venckiene 
shall be permitted to remain in the United States until 
a final order is issued with respect to her pending applica-
tion for asylum. 
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(c) FREE MOVEMENT.—Judge Neringa Venckiene 
shall not be held in Federal or State prison or detention 
for any immigration-related or extradition-related offense 
and shall be allowed free movement and continued work 
permission until a final order is issued with respect to her 
pending application for asylum. 
Æ 
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