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Broadcasting ban (1)

01 January 1991

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Broadcasting ban
artdoc May=1991
Statewatch no.1 March/April 1991

In a case testing the validity of the ban on broadcasting representatives or
supporters of Sinn Fein, Republican Sinn Fein, the Ulster Defence Association
and any organisation proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary
Provisions) Act 1984 and the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978,
the House of Lords ruled that the ban was lawful and not unreasonable. It also
rejected the argument that the Home Secretary was obliged to take the European
Convention on Human Rights into account, affirming that the convention was not
part of domestic law. Independent, 8.2.91

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