Human rights court to rule if ‘hooded men’ were tortured
Case of 14 men interned in North in 1971 reviewed following RTÉ documentary
Fr Denis Faul: took up the cause of the 14 men who had been taken to Ballykelly army base and subjected to ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’. Photograph: Alan Betson
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg will rule on Tuesday on whether 14 men interned in Northern Ireland in 1971 were tortured.
The court ruled in 1978 that the treatment of the so-called “hooded men” had amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, but not torture.