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The Irish Times: State’s inaction on torture protocol is ‘embarrassing’

Nov 27, 2015

The Government’s failure to allow prisons, Garda stations and other places of detention to be inspected by the United Nations has become a source of national embarrassment, a senior UN official has said. Malcolm Evans said at the last universal periodic review of the...

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