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Ireland fails to sign UN treaty on renditions

category international | crime and justice | other press author Tuesday February 13, 2007 16:11author by anon

IRELAND has put off signing a UN treaty that bans governments carrying out forced disappearances and jailing people in secret.

The treaty criminalises anybody involved in the CIA secret renditions and forces countries to prosecute those involved. The US has said it will not ratify it.

Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain have also refused to sign.

They have all been associated with the CIA’s kidnapping of terror suspects and with Ireland will be named in a European Parliament report tomorrow.

Almost 60 countries have signed a global treaty that outlaws enforced disappearances and allows victims' families the right to learn the truth about what happened after the pact - approved by the United Nations General Assembly last year - was officially opened for signature today
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author by Duinepublication date Tue Mar 20, 2007 16:34author address author phone

Iarraim ar Rialtas na hÉireann Conradh seo na Náisiún Aontaithe a shíniú anois.

(Sea! Tá fhios agam go léann G2 Agus na gardaí an suíomh seo.

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