Government to appeal Hooded Men torture ruling

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The Irish Government is to appeal a European Court of Human Rights ruling on the Hooded Men, reported on 12 June 2018. The ruling found that 14 men detained by the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971 were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, but not torture.

The appeal will ask the ECHR’s Grand Chamber to consider revising the earlier judgment. The decision followed High Court proceedings brought by Mary McKenna, whose late father Sean McKenna was among the detainees, seeking information about whether the State would appeal.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.