The amendments to the Law were adopted by 75 votes in favour, with 9 votes against and 23 abstentions.
The Seimas adopted amendments to Article 22 of the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public to establish that producers and/or disseminators of public information and/or their participants, when announcing the news about suicides or suicide attempts, may not publish the motives, means and methods of committing suicides or suicide attempts, present suicide as a proper way of resolving any problem or as a natural daily reality, romanticise suicides, and show the process of committing suicide or the person who attempts or has committed suicide. The information on suicides or suicide attempts must contain a reference to the available emotional or psychological assistance and the self-support groups for the close ones of suicide victims.
The amendments to the Law were adopted by 75 votes in favour, with 9 votes against and 23 abstentions.