{"id":602,"date":"2013-02-22T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-raises-rendition-flights-with-tanaiste\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T10:15:24","slug":"crowe-raises-rendition-flights-with-tanaiste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-raises-rendition-flights-with-tanaiste\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe raises rendition flights with T\u00e1naiste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crowe raises rendition flights with T\u00e1naiste<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, raised the issue of CIA extraordinary rendition flights using Irish airports and airspace with the T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, in the D\u00e1il.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowe raised the issue during questions time to the T\u00e1naiste and on the foot of a newly released report by the Open Society Justice Initiative, titled Globalising Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition, <\/em>which listed Ireland as one country which helped facilitate CIA extraordinary rendition flights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:
\u201cIn its report, the Open Society Justice Initiative bases its evidence of Ireland\u2019s complicity in CIA rendition flights on three high-level reports from the European parliament, the Council of Europe and the UN. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was particularly surprised at the Government\u2019s silence following the report, considering the allegations it made in relation to the role Ireland played in extraordinary rendition. Ireland now has a seat on the UN Human Rights Council and it is vital that every effort is made to clarify and uncover any material linking this state to extraordinary rendition of prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRendition flights are completely illegal under international law, and it is vital to investigate any claims that this state facilitated rendition flights, by allowing the use of Shannon airport and Irish airspace. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe T\u00e1naiste has said that previous Government\u2019s received assurances by the US authorities that Irish airspace and airports were not used by the CIA for rendition flights. Those assurances seem to be at odds with his views on 1 March 2006, when he said that \u201cthe European Convention on Human Rights can also be violated \u2018through an omission to act. Not knowing is not good enough.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe T\u00e1naiste failed to explain why he didn\u2019t believe these assurances in opposition, but for some unknown reason he believes them now. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am calling on the Government to thoroughly investigate these claims and to institute safeguards which will ensure that military operations by foreign states do not use Irish airspace and airports to violate human rights and international law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crowe raises rendition flights with T\u00e1naiste Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, raised the issue of CIA extraordinary rendition flights using Irish airports and airspace with the T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, in the D\u00e1il. Crowe raised the issue during questions time to the T\u00e1naiste and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}