Internment of Ireland’s Adams was unlawful, says UK court

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Updated At : 12:49 PM May 14, 2020 IST

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London, May 13

The British Supreme Court overturned two 1975 convictions of Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams for prison escape attempts in Northern Ireland during its conflict, ruling on Wednesday that his initial internment without trial was unlawful.

Adams, who stood down in 2018 as head of Sinn Fein, the party opposing British rule of Northern Ireland, was held without trial in the 1970s under a policy meant to break the guerrilla Irish Republican Army. The conflict between Protestant Unionists who favour continued British rule and Catholic Irish Nationalists ended with the Good Friday agreement in 1998. — Reuters

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