Garda tapes 'a shocking violation of human rights'

Secret recordings of conversations between prison inmates and their lawyers are a shocking violation of human rights recognised around the world, the legal industry said tonight.

Garda tapes 'a shocking violation of human rights'

Secret recordings of conversations between prison inmates and their lawyers are a shocking violation of human rights recognised around the world, the legal industry said tonight.

Just a week after the Irish Government was plunged into crisis over revelations that telephone calls at Garda stations were taped for decades, prison chiefs have admitted surveillance of prisoners talking to their legal teams.

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