{"id":1403755,"date":"2023-12-20T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/20\/ireland-takes-human-rights-case-against-uk-over-troubles-legacy-act"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:22:24","slug":"ireland-to-launch-human-rights-case-against-uk-over-troubles-legacy-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/20\/ireland-to-launch-human-rights-case-against-uk-over-troubles-legacy-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to launch human rights case against UK over Troubles legacy act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish government to sue over British attempt to stop prosecutions for Troubles-era crimes<\/p><p>The Irish government is to sue the UK government over its attempt to halt inquests, civil cases and criminal prosecutions for Troubles-era crimes.<\/p><p>Leo Varadkar said on Wednesday that Dublin would launch an inter-state case against the UK\u2019s so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/26\/troubles-legacy-bill-northern-ireland-risks-breaching-human-rights-law-uk-warned\">legacy legislation<\/a> under the European convention on human rights.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/20\/ireland-takes-human-rights-case-against-uk-over-troubles-legacy-act\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/20\/ireland-takes-human-rights-case-against-uk-over-troubles-legacy-act\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish government to sue over British attempt to stop prosecutions for Troubles-era crimesThe Irish government is to sue the UK government over its attempt to halt inquests, civil cases and criminal prosecutions for Troubles-era crimes.Leo Varadkar said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,2944,6,2060,640,1991,1993,14,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403898,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403755\/revisions\/1403898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}