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THE GARDA Ombudsman is to investigate a complaint by environmental group Tarawatch about the detention and repatriation of an American human rights lawyer.

Matt Schwoebel (27), lawyer and programme director of 2048 Project, a human rights project at Berkeley Law School at the University of California, arrived in Dublin on November 23rd.