04.05.2016, Moot Court, Áras na Laoi, Gaol Cross
Criminal Justice and Amnesties: Europe and Terrorism (1960-2016)
Dr. Roldán Jimeno, Faculty of Law, Public University of Navarre, Spain
Criminal Justice and Amnesties: Europe and Terrorism (1960-2016)
Discussant:
Dr. Vittorio Bufacchi, Department of Philosophy, University College Cork
Wed 4th May 2016 1-2pm
Áras na Laoi, Moot Court Room (first floor), School of Law
U.C.C.
ALL WELCOME
Abstract of Lecture:
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is pleased to welcome Roldan Jimeno, Senior Lecturer of History of Law at the Public University of Navarre, Spain. Roldan is currently guest researcher at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUIG.
Dr. Roldan’s talk will concern the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country that concluded with very different amnesties. The Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy included an amnesty in 1977. This amnesty was applied to crimes of terrorism against the Franco regime and also to crimes perpetrated during the dictatorship and the transition by both, the State and terrorists of the extreme right. In Northern Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 took into account recent developments in international law. International law did not allow total amnesties. To this end, ’amnesties under license’ were introduced by the British Government for both, Irish Republican Army (IRA) and loyalist paramilitary members and prisoners in Northern Ireland. The ‘amnesty under license’ was very different to the total or general amnesties in previous decades of some Latin American countries, Spain and the French amnesties for crimes in Algeria.
Against this background, Roldan will also highlight the events in Spain and in France, where terrorism was carried out by the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) from 1977 onward. In Northern Ireland, new groups caused an intensification of terrorist attacks from 1999 onward that resulted in deadly attacks in all three countries. His talk will examine the status of current prisoners of terrorist organizations in these countries in relation to amnesty laws. The United Nations and other international human rights organizations have taken a position against total amnesty, as total amnesties usher in a culture of impunity. In this context, Roldan will elaborate as how the ‘war on terror’ has severely affected human rights protection in the United Kingdom, France and Spain, while impacting amnesty laws.
https://www.unavarra.es/pdi?uid=3256
No admission charge. Organised by CCJHR
