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AMNESTY confirms that Shannon Airport has been used to facilitate the rendition of prisoners.

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Friday March 14, 2008 12:57

by Edward Horgan

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Amnesty Report

Faceless victims

Amnesty International says it has evidence that Shannon Airport has been used for so-called "rendition" flights by the CIA.

The human rights organisation says it has obtained flight records which show a jet operated by the US intelligence agency refuelled at the Co Clare airport in January 2004.

Amnesty's Irish branch says the evidence is unquestionable and it is no longer tenable for the Irish Government to accept US assurances that Shannon has not been used for illegal activity.

Related Links: Amnesty Homepage Press Release Full Report
RTE coverage Previous Indymedia stories on Rendition

It is demanding that the Irish Government establish a proper inspection regime in Shannon to ensure that Irish territory cannot be used in this way in the future.

A small groups of peace activists have been highlighting this gross abuse of human rights and international law since January 2003 when we first became aware of CIA use of Shannon airport.
In the meantime the Irish government has been in gross breach of the UN Convention on Torture because when alerted to the possible use of Shannon for torture rendition, it failed to prevent this facilitation of torture and harrased and arrested several of those peace activists who were exposing it.

Errors were made in this initial report. These were corrected in later comments. I have edited the headline and story in order to remove these errors. 1 of indymedia.

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#	Title	Author	Date
1	Truth has a habit of surfacing at the end of the day	MichaelY	Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:22
2	Lied	CK	Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:22
3	It doesn't say exactly what ed says - here is amnesty press release	.	Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:32
4	Guilty as charged	paul o toole	Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:46
5	misleading	CK	Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:07
6	Facts, facts, facts, damn inconvenient facts.	Contrarian	Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:38
7	What are you doing Ed Horgan	regreader	Fri Mar 14, 2008 13:33
8	Pointless Annual Parade	Anti-War	Fri Mar 14, 2008 14:24
9	will people take action, if so what action, where to find it....making the movement(s) stickier	dunk	Fri Mar 14, 2008 14:52
10	Error in initial report above	Edward Horgan	Fri Mar 14, 2008 16:41
11	The Greens and Amnesty/PD will sort it	Cynic	Fri Mar 14, 2008 16:46
12	Already sorted !	Sharon.	Fri Mar 14, 2008 17:07
13	Sorry to propagate the error, but still plenty of evidence of crimes of torture	Coilín	Fri Mar 14, 2008 20:25
14	http://torture-is-us.com/index.php	scooter	Sat Mar 15, 2008 13:08
15	Troops in Uniform in local hotels	Edward Horgan	Sat Mar 15, 2008 13:15
16	Search the planes	Bazooka Joe	Sat Mar 15, 2008 13:54
17	Curiouser and curiouser.	Contrarian	Sun Mar 16, 2008 00:06
18	Feck Amnesty. I've proof a prisoner was brought through Shannon in January 2004.	William Joseph Donovan	Sun Mar 16, 2008 00:29
19	Examiner Report	CIA Watch	Sun Mar 16, 2008 00:30
20	US soldiers in uniform	Contrarian	Sun Mar 16, 2008 00:36
21	Customary International law	Edward Horgan	Sun Mar 16, 2008 14:00
22	A fuller picture	Contrarian	Sun Mar 16, 2008 16:01
23	Compelling case?	Coilín	Sun Mar 16, 2008 20:14
24	Applicability of international law	Edward Horgan	Mon Mar 17, 2008 00:22
25	Passage of bodies.....???	Donal	Mon Mar 17, 2008 18:38
26	international law?	Contrarian	Wed Mar 19, 2008 15:56
27	The Hague Convention	Edward Horgan	Wed Mar 19, 2008 17:42
28	We once considered ourselves bound by the Hague Convention	Seán Ryan	Wed Mar 19, 2008 18:47
29	Domestic law trumps international law.	Contrarian	Wed Mar 19, 2008 18:51
30	to Seán Ryan	Contrarian	Wed Mar 19, 2008 19:07
31	Habeus Corpus	Seán Ryan	Wed Mar 19, 2008 22:40
32	Why there were no German Habeas Corpus applications	Contrarian	Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:10
33	Division	Seán Ryan	Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:33
34	Getting more inconsistent now!	Contrarian	Thu Mar 20, 2008 13:35
35	If I were not consistent one should be able to point out...	Seán Ryan	Thu Mar 20, 2008 13:49
36	Really?	Contrarian	Thu Mar 20, 2008 14:42
37	Bouncing cheques	Seán Ryan	Thu Mar 20, 2008 17:33
38	For Sean Ryan	Sceptic	Thu Mar 20, 2008 17:52
39	My last post on this thread that will be off topic, no more feeding trolls	Seán Ryan	Thu Mar 20, 2008 18:07
40	Getting back on track	Contrarian	Mon Mar 24, 2008 23:07
41	Response from the Department of Foreign Affairs	Mark C	Fri May 16, 2008 18:36
42	Response to Department of Foreign Affairs	Mark C	Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:56
43	Cringe!	not a lynne truss fan	Wed Jun 11, 2008 22:14
44	Re: Not a Lynne Truss Fan	Mark C	Thu Jun 12, 2008 15:45
45	Another Reply from the Department of Foreign Affairs	Mark C	Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:10
46	Observations on Mark Conroy’s correspondence with Foreign Affairs	Sceptic	Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:42
47	Re Sceptic	Mark C	Mon Jun 30, 2008 16:05
48	You don't have a right to speak for the people on the Shannon issue	Sceptic	Tue Jul 01, 2008 15:44
49	Lighten up.	not a lynne truss fan	Tue Jul 01, 2008 19:35
50	Thanks	Mark C	Tue Jul 01, 2008 22:26

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