Hooded Men: League Said It Was torture 40 Years Ago

February 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Success, by Amal Clooney and the legal team representing the ‘Hooded Men’ will cause ‘huge embarrassment’ for the United Kingdom according to an article in the (UK) Guardian newspaper this week. The Irish governments case will not simply

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Amal Clooney Part of ‘Hooded Men’ Legal team

February 12, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The high profile human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is to be part of a team of lawyers representing the ‘Hooded Men’ in a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The men, all arrested in 1971

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United Kingdom Fail to Implement Torture Safeguards Protocol

December 7, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It came to late to ensure that the torture suffered by the ‘Hooded Men’ reported on Celtic News recently did not occur. Nor was it in place to ensure that ill treatment in prisons, holding centres and police

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Irish Government to Act Over Hooded Men Torture

December 2, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Irish government has decided to proceed with an application to have a European Court of Human Rights judgement revised. The case was originally brought by the Irish government on behalf of a number of men interned in

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Celtic League GS Urges Taoiseach to Act Over Torture Case

December 1, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE As the deadline for Ireland the reopen a ECtHR torture case, involving internees in the north of Ireland in the early 1970s, fast approaches the Celtic League General Secretary (GS) has written to the Taoiseach urging action. “A

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All Smiles At The BIC But No Time For the Hooded Men

December 1, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Everyone’s smiling on the British Irish Council ‘family’ photo except Enda Kenny (see link): https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/scotland-can-learn-from-manx-experience-1-6978881 Now it could be that Enda was caught out of pose or just that he’s by nature a fairly serious man. Or it

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