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"en.20141217.63.3-481-000"2
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"Mr President, the recent Senate report on CIA interrogation techniques exposes that American administrations sanction torture. Unfortunately this is not new. The five techniques were used by the British Government to torture 14 Irish men interned over 40 years ago. As a result, the Irish Government brought the British Government to the European Court of Human Rights, which was the first time a Member State took another to that Court. That happened in 1978 in a landmark Ireland vs UK case on the hooded men. However, the Court ruled that the five techniques amounted to inhumane and degrading treatment – not torture.
The Bush administration justified the used of these torture techniques in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay by quoting the EU Court ruling on the hooded men. However, information recently discovered by the Pat Finucane Centre shows that the British Government lied to the European Court of Human Rights on the effects of these techniques, and that the 14 hooded men were indeed tortured. These torture techniques were sanctioned at the highest level of government by the then British Minister of Defence, Lord Carrington. Only last week, the Irish Government confirmed it had referred the case of the hooded men back to the European Court of Human Rights to revise its judgment. Britain is guilty of torture. The British Government must apologise for the use of the five techniques in Ireland, just like it recently apologised for their use in Kenya, and the American Government must do likewise."@en1
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