Ireland fails to sign UN treaty on renditions

international | crime and justice | other press Tuesday February 13, 2007 16:11 by anon

IRELAND has put off signing a UN treaty that bans governments carrying out forced disappearances and jailing people in secret.

The treaty criminalises anybody involved in the CIA secret renditions and forces countries to prosecute those involved. The US has said it will not ratify it.

Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain have also refused to sign.

They have all been associated with the CIA’s kidnapping of terror suspects and with Ireland will be named in a European Parliament report tomorrow.

Almost 60 countries have signed a global treaty that outlaws enforced disappearances and allows victims' families the right to learn the truth about what happened after the pact - approved by the United Nations General Assembly last year - was officially opened for signature today
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