Kenny complicit in rights abuses by sanctioning Shannon stopover

Afri has called on the Government to fulfil its legal and moral obligations to prevent further use of Shannon and Irish air space for torture-related flights.

As in other areas, the Government’s failure to see the facts of abuse; its complicity in abusive practices and its ultimate responsibility to protect human rights is becoming embarrassingly implausible.

In recent weeks, Shannonwatch forced the Minister for Foreign Affairs to back track on his bland denials that suspect flights had been landing. Now the UK–based rendition project has documented over 200 landings, which it has called “fundamentally important logistical stops” on the CIA’s rendition circuit.