I had already initiated a civil action and I didn’t think as a human rights activist I should run so I decided to stay. By the end of the ordeal, his own human rights had taken a battering. The European Commission of Human Rights found that the men had been subjected to torture. “The Irish government was correct to pursue that case,” Breatnach says. Could the same thing happen again, with all the changes we have seen, all the oversights, all the advances in human rights?

Source: Irish Examiner September 04, 2021 05:26 UTC