Lituanie : visite d'une ancienne prison du KGB, à la veille de la visite du pape

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VIDEO SHOWS: FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF KAUNAS SIGITAS TAMKEVICIUS SHOWING CELLS OF FORMER KGB PRISON IN VILNIUS WHERE POPE FRANCIS WILL VISIT DURING HIS FORTHCOMING VISIT TO THE BALTIC STATES, SOUNDBITES FROM TAMKEVICIUS TALKING ABOUT HIS DETENTION BY SOVIET AUTHORITIES RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (RECENT - SEPTEMBER 12, 2018) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF KAUNAS, SIGITAS TAMKEVICIUS, ENTERING CELL IN FORMER KGB PRISON (NOW MUSEUM OF OCCUPATIONS AND FREEDOM FIGHTS) WHERE POPE FRANCIS WILL VISIT DURING TRIP TO BALTIC STATES 2. BEDSTEADS IN CELL 3. CELL WINDOW 4. METAL BUNK 5. TAMKEVICIUS' FACE LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS 6. PHOTOGRAPHS OF TAMKEVICIUS HELD IN HIS HANDS 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Lithuanian) FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF KAUNAS, SIGITAS TAMKEVICIUS, SAYING: "At the moment, we are in one of the holding cells of the (former) KGB jail. It is the cell where I was held, and where thousands of Lithuanians were jailed, thousands of believers (Christians). This was the Golgotha (the hill where Jesus Christ was crucified), our trial." 8. PHOTOGRAPHS IN TAMKEVICIUS' HANDS 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Lithuanian) FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF KAUNAS, SIGITAS TAMKEVICIUS, SAYING: "Pope Francis, by visiting the KGB jail, is sending a message that he cares about the people who suffered for their beliefs, for devotion to the motherland. This makes me very happy, and it is a very great honour to be able to accompany Pope Francis to the KGB jail where I was jailed." 10. TAMKEVICIUS WALKING ALONG CORRIDOR PAST CELL DOORS, TAMKEVICIUS OPENING DOOR AND SAYING (Lithuanian): "Pope Francis will visit this cell." / INTERIOR OF CELL 11. METAL CUPS AND DISHES ON SHELF, PRISONERS UNIFORM FOLDED UP ON STOOL 12. CELL INTERIOR AND FURNITURE 13. BOARD WITH PRISON RULES HANGING ON CELL WALL 14. TAMKEVICIUS WALKING IN CORRIDOR AND ENTERING 'BISHOP'S CELL', WHERE BISHOPS WERE HELD AS PRISONERS (WHICH POPE WILL VISIT) 15. TAMKEVICIUS LOOKING AT MUSEUM EXHIBITION IN CELL 16. VARIOUS OF PORTRAITS OF BISHOPS HANGING ON WALL 17. TAMKEVICIUS ENTERING EXECUTION CELL (WHICH POPE WILL VISIT)/ CELL INTERIOR 18. GLASS FLOOR COVERING ORIGINAL CELL FLOOR 19. SPECTACLES ON THE ORIGINAL CELL FLOOR BELOW GLASS COVERING 20. INTERIOR OF EXECUTION CELL 21. VARIOUS OF PHOTOGRAPH IN MUSEUM DISPLAY SHOWING DAMAGED SKULLS OF VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED BY KGB EXECUTIONERS 22. TABLE SHOWING NUMBERS OF VICTIMS IN PERIOD BETWEEN 1944-1947 WITH DATES OF EXECUTION AND NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED, TEXT READING (Lithuanian): "TOTAL: NO LESS THAN 1038" 23. ARCHBISHOP SIGITAS TAMKEVICIUS WALKING TOWARDS AND PAST MONUMENT TO VICTIMS OF SOVIET OCCUPATION 24. PLAQUE ON MONUMENT READING (Lithuanian): "IN MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF THE SOVIET OCCUPATION" 25. CANDLE BURNING ON MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF VICTIMS STORY: Pope Francis will visit a former KGB prison in Vilnius on Sunday (September 23) during his visit to Lithuania, in which prisoners, including members of Catholic clergy, were held during the Soviet era. Sigitas Tankevicius, who was Archbishop of Kaunas until 2015, was among them. The 79-year-old was arrested in 1983 for being part of a committee advocating for the rights of Catholics to practice their faith. "This was the Golgotha", Tankevicius says, referring to the hill on which Jesus was crucified. After his detention he spent some time in exile in Siberia, before being released in 1989. Francis will visit the prison - now the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights - and tour several of the building's basement cells, including one known as the 'bishop's cell' where several Lithuanian bishops were held as prisoners. He will also visit the 'execution cell' where prisoners sentenced to death were killed. The museum says more than 1,000 people were killed in the p