Always a Platform for Torture Apologists in the British Media

December 16, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A few days ago the New York Times (NYT) commenting when the US Senate released its controversial report into torture said: “The publication today of a censored summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the use of

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Irish Government Urged to Seek release of Secret MoD CR Gas Files

December 15, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has asked the Irish government to add its voice to the calls for secret files covering (Operation Pagoda) – the stockpiling and use of CR gas by British security forces in Ireland – to be

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MoD Pressed to Published Files on Operation Pagoda

December 15, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League have written to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence asking when it will release forty year old files on Operation Pagoda which covered the deployment and use of CR Gas in Ulster in the 1970s.

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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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Concern at Lack of NGO Consultation By Governments

November 26, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Manx Branch of the Celtic League is to ask the General Secretary of the League to press the Irish, Manx, United Kingdom and French governments to ensure that they involve accredited Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in consultation

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Business Department Respond on Equipment Exports Issue

July 27, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Department of Busines Innovation and Skills (BIS) have responded to a query from the League about the control and extent of the export of riot equipment which sometimes is used to repress popular dissent in the countries

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UN Torture Committee Raises UK Concerns

June 3, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The United Nations Committee Against Torture has released a report today which sets out a range of criticisms relating to the United Kingdom and its dependencies. The report can be found here: https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/co/CAT.C.GBR.CO.R.5-%20AUV_en.doc The Celtic League which has

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CAT Urged to Press UK on Failure to Istanbul Protocol

January 8, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE CAT URGED TO PRESS UK ON FAILURE TO ISTANBUL PROTOCOL The Celtic League has raised the issue of the United Kingdoms failure to apply the Istanbul Protocol to Police and Prison services with the UN Committee Against Torture

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Pasty Tax Not Welcome in Kernow!

March 27, 2012

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE In 1497 Mychal Josef an Gof and Thomas Flamank marched to London with thousands of other Cornish people in armed revolt over what were perceived as unfair tax rises that the King of England had imposed on the

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Dying Days of the UK?

February 15, 2012

Even before the Scottish National Party (SNP) launched its plans on 25th January 2012 – Burns Night – to hold a referendum on independence in Autumn 2014, questions were being asked about what would happen to the United Kingdom without one of its

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