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Ireland: State of Emergency lifted

01 March 1995

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After 55 years the State of Emergency has finally been dropped. This came after a campaign by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and a strong condemnation by the UN Human Rights Committee in July 1993. The Offences Against the State Acts and the no-jury Special Criminal Court remains in use, though they too were singled out the UN Committee. Every year a UN Special Rapporteur draws up a list of states which have declared states of emergency and are using emergency laws without formally declaring an emergency. The Irish government neglected to inform them of the package of laws in force. In January the ICCL reported the government to the Special Rapporteur.

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