CIAO DATE: 9/07
Culture and Conflict: Volume 56 (Winter 2005)
The history of Northern Ireland and the European Court of Human Rights goes back to 1978 and to the Court’s first definition of torture and inhuman or degrading sentences or treatments. In this interview, Nuala Mole refers to the various sentences the United Kingdom was condemned to, by the ECHR, for violation of the right to life in Northern Ireland. The international lawyer details the decisions of the Court in four procedures engaged by the next to kin of eleven people killed by the security forces and of an individual killed by a protestant armed group with the presumed complicity of the laws applications chiefs. The author highlights how these judgements have major repercussions for the next to kin but also for many other affairs that have occurred in Northern Ireland, as well as for other procedures that have been started in the United Kingdom and other European countries.