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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: If he does not want to answer it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I asked the questions because I want them on the record in order that people can understand whether two NGOs are coming with different views on whether an Irish citizen was tortured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has said he was not tortured, Amnesty International has said he was not tortured and we are discussing torture. In 1974, the same Department said it would intervene where practicable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: If he does not want to answer the question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: That in itself answers the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: If it is all right with Mr. O'Gorman, I will finish my questioning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: When you are finished-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I would appreciate it if Mr. O'Gorman would answer my question. An article in The Irish Timeson 23 June 2015 stated the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission backed down from making a statement on the case of Ibrahim Halawa after being told to do so by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. At any stage, did the Department ask Amnesty International not to make a statement or back...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Amnesty has not said he has been tortured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: You have not explained why. I asked the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: He has put a point to me and I am responding to that point. It is simple; Amnesty International has stated that he is at risk of torture. This is not a pedantic point. This is a central point. If an Irish citizen abroad is being tortured everybody should get involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: The issue here is that one NGO says he has been tortured and Amnesty International refuses to say he has been tortured. It says he is at risk of torture. In Egypt of course one is at risk of torture.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Could Mr. O’Gorman be definitive and say whether he has been tortured?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Mr. O’Gorman can be definitive about whether he has been tortured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: He does not know how to respond so I am clarifying the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I am talking about an Irish citizen's case in what is allegedly a court of law-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: -----and whether he is being tortured is of concern to everybody in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: At present, there is no clarity as to whether he is being tortured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: The Department is saying he is not being tortured, as is Amnesty International. However, there are reports from two other sources which state he is being tortured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Is Mr. O'Gorman saying that he has been tortured?