VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lawyers for an alleged al-Qaida facilitator on Thursday filed a case against Lithuania at Europe’s court of human rights over torture and secret detention at a CIA-run site in the Baltic state.

Zayn al Abdeen Mohammed Hussein, a Palestinian who’s also known as Abu Zubaydah, hopes the suit will force Lithuanian authorities to reopen their investigation into secret CIA facilities and victims of torture, according to Interights, a London-based human rights protection group.

Lithuanian prosecutors announced last week they would not reopen a probe despite new information gathered by non-governmental organizations about the Palestinian currently held at a secret lockup the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay.

An investigation by Lithuanian lawmakers two years ago found that two CIA prisons were set up in the Baltic state though it did not find evidence that the facilities actually held prisoners. Prosecutors then followed up with their own probe, only to close it in January for lack of evidence.

Rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Reprieve last month provided Lithuanian prosecutors with new information and contacts that they claim is sufficient to reopen the investigation, which they criticized as “superficial.”

The organizations attempted to show that Abu Zubaydah was rendered from Morocco to Lithuania on a Boeing 737 in February 2005 – evidence that was unavailable before.

Interights said in a statement that Abu Zubaydah “was held in a secret detention facility, constructed and equipped specifically for CIA detention, in accordance with prior authorization from high level Lithuanian authorities.”

By filing the suit in the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, lawyers hope to win a verdict “recognizing (Abu Zubaydah) as a victim of torture, secret detention and enforced disappearance on Lithuanian soil” and compel Lithuanians to conduct “an independent and thorough investigation.”

Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and taken to several CIA black sites overseas until he was transferred to Guantánamo Bay prison in 2006. He was reportedly waterboarded 83 times while in Thailand, according to released records and former intelligence officials.

The rendition program involved the transfer of U.S. terror suspects from country to country by the CIA – a policy that human rights advocates say were the agency’s way to outsource torture of prisoners to countries where it is permitted.

The U.S. government as a policy refuses to comment on CIA prisons, though there existence has been established by CIA officials.

Abu Zubaydah’s claim in the European court will not be the first. In May, the Open Society Justice Initiative, a New York-based human rights group, filed suit on behalf of Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, suspected al-Qaida mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Nashiri faces arraignment at Guantánamo on Nov. 9, his first court appearance since he disappeared into the secret CIA prisons in 2002 and was waterboarded too.