Decision means British army’s maltreatment of 14 detainees cannot be redefined as tortureThe European court of human rights has rejected a final attempt by the Irish government to redefine as torture the maltreatment of 14 men interned without trial at the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Judges at the ECHR refused to refer the case of the so-called “hooded men” to its internal appeal court, the grand chamber. The “hooded men” were mainly republican suspects seized in predawn raids across North Ireland in August 1971.The authorities in Dublin, backed by human rights organisations, had asked the ECHR in 2014 to revise its original 1978 judgment after large numbers of documents from the years of internment emerged. The refusal to refer the case to the Grand Chamber marks the end of the right of appeal for campaigners. In March, the ECHR’s main court rejected the request to redefine the maltreatment as torture. The 1978 judgment will now stand as final. Continue reading…
Via: ECHR judges reject final appeal in Troubles 'hooded men' case
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