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Articles marked Gareth PeirceGareth Peirce is a lawyer who represents a number of individuals who have been the subject of rendition and torture in the past, others still held today in Guantánamo Bay, in prisons in the UK on the basis of secret evidence, and in secret prisons abroad under regimes that continue to practise torture. Originally published 10 April 2008 Was it like this for the Irish?As good a place to start as any is 19 December 2001. On this date a dozen men, all foreign nationals, were interned in this country. Recognising the connotations of the term ‘internment’, discredited and abandoned in Northern Ireland, the government insisted this was not equivalent to arbitrary detention without trial, a practice forbidden by the European Convention on Human Rights except in extreme emergencies, because each man was free to leave. [ read more . . . ] Search the web for Gareth Peirce: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia In the LRB archive‘Make sure you say that you were treated properly’ · 14 May 2009 Was it like this for the Irish? · 10 April 2008 |
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