Evidence was deleted, omitted, and fraudulent ‘evidence’ included.
Why does the Irish State protect the Special Criminal Court from robust inspection or negative comment or demonstrations with threats of fines and five years jail time?
EXAMINER FOCUS ON SALLINS CAMPAIGN Osgur Breatnach is to petition the UN to conduct an investigation into his case which he claims involved torture. Photo:
Expert proof exposes Gardai falsified Sallins statements.
No sooner had the Court of Appeal found Breatnach had been psychologically tortured and ordered his immediate release than the government shut down their investigation
False List led to Sallins prosecution.
Garda immunity still in place. Special Court still in place. State cover up still place.
As Fair Trials International joins every non-government human rights organisation on the island of Ireland to demand an independent public inquiry into the Sallins Case, the Irish government continues to refuse it.
For over forty years the existence of a Garda heavy Gang has been denied. This ground-breaking three-part true-crime series looks at three of the most notorious miscarriages of justice cases from the 1970s and 1980 and draws links between them.
UNITED NATIONS OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO SALLINS CASES International lawyers KRW-LAW have lodged petitions to the United Nations for inquiries into the Sallins Case on behalf
Jodie Foster and Nancy Hollander. Foster played the part of Hollander in the Mauritanian 2021.
Three of the Sallins Men, Brian McNally, Nicky Kelly and Osgur Breatnach, in 1993 after the State refused to further represent the Gardai who were
As the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission calls for the abolition of the Offences Against the State Act and the non- jury Special Courts, will the Government listen?
As the UK Supreme Court rules the Hooded Men were ‘tortured’ in ‘deliberate state policy’ and that the decision not to investigate is ‘irrational’, will the Irish government consider a Sallins Inquiry?
Why does the Irish State protect the Special Criminal Court from robust inspection or negative comment or demonstrations with threats of fines and five years jail time?
Chief Justice of Ireland, Donal O’Donnell, has signalled Irish Courts need to ‘take a new direction’ to their previous weak response to claims under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). The Sallins Case involves many breaches of the ECHR.
The Honourable Supreme Court Justice Adrian Hardiman noted: “Twenty years ago, when Irish society was gripped by the fate of the Birmingham Six, the Guildford
Judge Donal Barrington ordered Osgur Breatnach’s release on his appeal. Later he helped found the Irish Council for Civil Liberties which calls for a public
The Government spokesperson has recently stated that the Sallins Case is not a matter ‘for public concern.’ Is refusal by the Irish Government to comply
No sooner had the Court of Appeal found Breatnach had been psychologically tortured and ordered his immediate release than the government shut down their investigation
The Court of Criminal Appeal reviewed the Sallins cases of Osgur Breatnach and Brian McNally and found they had been psychologically tortured and ordered their
EXAMINER FOCUS ON SALLINS CAMPAIGN Osgur Breatnach is to petition the UN to conduct an investigation into his case which he claims involved torture. Photo:
Martin admits Anglo- Irish relations have soured post-Brexit. This is exasperated by Irish Government opposition to the introduction of an historic amnesty for the British
The Irish government is shortly to find itself accused of being “in flagrant violation of its international obligations” by the UN. Experts appointed by the
TORTURE VICTIM OSGUR BREATNACH has engaged top international human rights lawyers KRW LAW to represent his legal claims for an impartial public inquiry into the
PHOENIX magazine claims a DPP review of the Sallins Case in 1983 is being suppressed by the Irish State.
Coveney and Martin’s opposition to Amnesty in Northern Ireland has led to speculation that amnesty cannot continue in the Republic.
Prominent doctor treating Breatnach for Trauma burgled.
REFUSED TO REPORT SLEEPING JUDGE IN FACE OF GARDA PRESSURE
False List led to Sallins prosecution.
Obligation to investigate torture and charge Gardai being ignored.
Garda immunity still in place. Special Court still in place. State cover up still place.
Expert proof exposes Gardai falsified Sallins statements.
Government ignores human rights groups renewed call for public inquiry.
Government silence follows the arrest and torture of Irish citizens.
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Denis Halliday and Mary Robinson, who served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights both support an inquiry.
‘I could drive a train through Sallins case’ he told Minister.
Physical & mental torture: no sleep, water or food, prolonged beatings..
Judges, Presidents and celebrities join thousands to call for inquiry.
DENIAL of rights, police
and judicial REPRESSION,
ongoing State COVER-UP.
Liam Herrick, Executive Director, Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Dr. Vicky Conway (BCL,LLM), author and member of the Irish Policing Authority, hosts two podcasts with Osgur Breatnach
who was wrongfully convicted in 1978 of the Sallins Mail Train Robbery.
An international award-winning story, told through shocking first-person testimony; the stories of those close to the Breatnach’s; archive footage of the time and, of course, through music.
