Amnesty report on human rights abuses in Northern Ireland
- Title
- Amnesty report on human rights abuses in Northern Ireland
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 9 Jul 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:04:49
- Description
- Simon Israel interviews Anita Tiessen, Amnesty International spokeswoman, about alleged human rights abuses in Northern Ireland. In its annual report, Amnesty International says that civilian deaths, unfair trials and ill-treatment of suspects are continuing in Northern Ireland and that several people were killed by the security forces in 1991 under suspicious circumstances. It also claims that investigations into their deaths fell short of international standards, people under arrest often have confessions beaten out of them, and trials are unfair in the province’s notorious Diplock Courts where defendants have no right to silence.
- Contributors
- Simon Israel; Anita Tiessen
- Keywords
- Deaths; Human rights violations; Amnesty International; Legal procedure; Reports; Government; Northern Ireland; UK; Policing practice; Trials; Miscarriages of justice; Right to justice
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