Ireland is taking the UK to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) again over a 36-year-old case of alleged torture by the British army. It claims British soldiers tortured 14 IRA supporters, but the ECHR took a different view in 1978, ruling that they were subjected only to "inhuman" treatment. The left-liberal daily the Irish Times welcomes the Dublin government's announcement that in view of new allegations it is returning the case to the court: "The judgement has cast a long dark shadow. Not only in the disappointment of the 14 that the true extent of their suffering has been underplayed and justice denied to them, but in providing a wretched benchmark for international human rights standards, in effect a veil of impunity for human rights abusers whose conduct was 'only' inhuman and not torture. The decision to return to the court may cause some diplomatic tension across the Irish Sea, but what is at stake is far more important - this State is doing right by international human rights." (04/12/2014)
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