Torture and Human Rights in Northern Ireland
Torture and Human Rights in Northern Ireland

Author: Aoife Duffy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-28

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 0429670745

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This book presents a compelling and highly sophisticated politico-legal history of a particular security operation that resulted in one of the most high-profile torture cases in the world. It reveals the extent to which the Ireland v. United Kingdom judgment misrepresents the interrogation system that was developed and utilised in Northern Ireland. Finally, the truth about the operation is presented in a comprehensive narrative, sometimes corroborating secondary literature already in the public domain, but at other times significantly debunking aphorisms, or, indeed, lies that circulated about interrogation in depth. The book sets out the theoretical reference paradigm with respect to the culture and practice of state denial often associated with torture, and uses this model to excavate the buried aspects of this most famous of torture cases. Through the lens of a single operation, conducted twice, it presents a fascinating exposé of the complicated structures of state-sponsored denial designed to hide the truth about the long-term effects of these techniques and the way in which they were authorised.

The Hooded Men
The Hooded Men

Author: Denis Faul

Publisher: Wordwell Books

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781905569991

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A look at the Irish internees who were subjected to torture in the 1970s, at the hands of RUC and the British Army.

Brutality in an Age of Human Rights
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights

Author: Brian Drohan

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-01-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1501714678

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Introduction : counterinsurgency and human rights in the post-1945 world -- A lawyers' war : emergency legislation and the Cyprus Bar Council -- The shadow of Strasbourg : international advocacy and Britain's response -- Hunger war : humanitarian rights and the Radfan campaign -- This unhappy affair : investigating torture in Aden -- A more talkative place : Northern Ireland

Torturing Terrorists
Torturing Terrorists

Author: Philip N.S. Rumney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1136184570

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This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture. Torturing Terrorists examines, as part of a consequentialist analysis, the nature and impact of torture and the implications of its legal regulation on individuals, institutions and wider society. In making an argument against the use of torture, the book engages in a wide ranging interdisciplinary analysis of the arguments and claims that are put forward by the proponents and opponents of legalised torture. This book examines the ticking bomb hypothetical and explains how the component parts of the hypothetical are expansively interpreted in theory and practice. It also considers the effectiveness of torture in producing ‘ticking bomb’ and ‘infrastructure’ intelligence and examines the use of interrogational torture and coercion by state officials in Northern Ireland, Algeria, Israel, and as part of the CIA’s ‘High Value Detainee’ interrogation programme. As part of an empirical slippery slope argument, this book examines the difficulties in drafting the text of a torture statute; the difficulties of controlling the use of interrogational torture and problems such a law could create for state officials and wider society. Finally, it critically evaluates suggestions that debating the legalisation of torture is dangerous and should be avoided. The book will be of interest to students and academics of criminology, law, sociology and philosophy, as well as the general reader.

Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland

Author: D. Walsh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-03-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0230514464

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Drawing on original research into explosive evidence which had been concealed for twenty-five years, this book offers a devastating critique of the official Widgery Inquiry into the massacre of innocent and unarmed civilians by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. It exposes the Inquiry as a gross denial of justice and the rule of law. Expert analysis of the subordination of law to security policy in Northern Ireland reveals that the Bloody Sunday experience is an integral part of a sustained pattern. Belated prospects for a restoration of justice and the rule of law are found in the Good Friday Peace Agreement and the unprecedented establishment of a second Tribunal of Inquiry into Bloody Sunday.

Human Rights
Human Rights

Author: James Avery Joyce

Publisher: Brill Archive

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9789028602984

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Monograph comprising a compilation of reprinted UN publications, ILO publications and other documents dealing with human rights - includes a one-page bibliography of related books in english. References and statistical tables.

Does Torture Prevention Work?
Does Torture Prevention Work?

Author: Richard Carver

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 1781383308

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In the past three decades, international and regional human rights bodies have developed an ever-lengthening list of measures that states are required to adopt in order to prevent torture. But do any of these mechanisms actually work? This study is the first systematic analysis of the effectiveness of torture prevention. Primary research was conducted in 16 countries, looking at their experience of torture and prevention mechanisms over a 30-year period. Data was analysed using a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques. Prevention measures do work, although some are much more effective than others. Most important of all are the safeguards that should be applied in the first hours and days after a person is taken into custody. Notification of family and access to an independent lawyer and doctor have a significant impact in reducing torture. The investigation and prosecution of torturers and the creation of independent monitoring bodies are also important in reducing torture. An important caveat to the conclusion that prevention works is that is actual practice in police stations and detention centres that matters - not treaties ratified or laws on the statute book.