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Case Against Human Rights Activist Dismissed in Shannon District Court
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Thursday May 21, 2009 22:51 by John Lannon
A case brought by the state against human rights activist Edward Horgan as a result of his requests to have a suspected CIA rendition plane searched at Shannon was dismissed in Ennis yesterday (20th May). Judge Mangan, presiding over Shannon District Court, dismissed the case on the basis of legal arguments made by Mr Horgan’s defence council.
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On the morning of June 18th 2008 Mr Horgan went to Shannon to take photographs of a plane with registration N54PA. Mr Horgan had been made aware by contacts in the US that the plane was on its way to Shannon, and because it had recently been to Guantanamo Bay he was aware that there might be evidence on board of its use in illegal rendition exercises. He asked the authorities to inspect it but they refused. Instead they served Mr Horgan with a summons that claimed he had impeded an airport security officer and refused to leave a security hut. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Well done to Ed et al,
Was there any reference during the proceedings about the claim in the first instance that there was an aeroplane parked in Shannon engaged in torture?. Has the reporting of this crime gone to ground or does it still have legs.??
Well done to all again. The despicable horror continnues, and now the new black hope Obama has rebranded his war in the M-east as the Af-Pak war. Six years in and 34 more years to go if we are to believe what Bush and Blair said about the lenght of this phase of despicable human history.
Congratulations, Ed! The reports coming out about torture are appalling; and the Irish government, by turning Shannon over to the US military as a permanent base, are utterly complicit. You've more courage than the entire Dáil put together. Congratulations again.
Aircraft had Guantanamo link, man alleges in Ennis court
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0521/1....html
and from yesterday's Irish Times also mentioning Edward Horgan
US vice-president visits troops at Shannon
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0520/1....html
Well done Ed and all the Shannonwatch crew. Thanks for continuing to be so vigilant.
Cheers,
Ronan
The Bush, Blair, Obama, Ahern, Cowan and Murphy Chorus:
"Here's a first-rate opportunity to get married with impunity" (repeated endlessly and shamelessly).
The International Law Chorus :
"Considering that the duty of every State under international law to respect and to secure respect for human rights requires that effective measures should be taken to combat impunity, ..." (From document titled "Updated Set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity at http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/principles.html )
Also from the document at the above location:
"Convinced, therefore, that national and international measures must be taken for that purpose with a view to securing jointly, in the interests of the victims of violations, observance of the right to know and, by implication, the right to the truth, the right to justice and the right to reparation, without which there can be no effective remedy against the pernicious effects of impunity, ..."
From Wikipedia (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impunity ):
"Impunity is especially common in countries that lack a tradition of the rule of law, suffer from corruption or that have entrenched systems of patronage, or where the judiciary is weak or members of the security forces are protected by special jurisdictions or immunities."
From the Guardian Newspaper (at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq ):
"The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal."
So why is it that none of the people responsible for starting and sustaining this ILLEGAL war -- now into its 7th year, and which has left hundreds of thousands dead and injured -- have not been charged with any crime whatsoever, so far?
The United Nations defines impunity as:
"the impossibility, de jure or de facto, of bringing the perpetrators of violations to account – whether in criminal, civil, administrative or disciplinary proceedings – since they are not subject to any inquiry that might lead to their being accused, arrested, tried and, if found guilty, sentenced to appropriate penalties, and to making reparations to their victims."
People of The World's Chorus (repeated until human rights law is responsibly abided by):
"Shame on the United States of America, Shame on the United Kingdom, Shame on the Republic of Ireland;
And Thanks to all of the Protesters who keep on SHOWING THEM UP."
The REAL criminals are still out there, and they still committing MAJOR crime with impunity: and, most worrying of all, there is still nobody (anywhere in the world it seems) who can challenge them effectively through the courts of law? -- in spite of the mountains of human rights law now in existence, but which is not being enforced.
The lunatics really have taken control of the asylum it appears.
Well done Ed. Congratulations from all of us in the Dublin group of the IAWM.
We've started preparation work for the 'War, NATO and the Lisbon Treaty' Conference in Shannon on Sept 5th and we will be able to work together with all the comrades and friends in Shannonwatch.
Take care and be safe my good friend.
Congrats . Keep up the good work.