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==== Ireland ==== The [[Irish government]] has come under internal and external pressure to inspect airplanes at [[Shannon Airport]] to investigate whether or not they contain extraordinary rendition captives.<ref name="Times041114">{{cite news | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1357726,00.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20060111121535/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1357726,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=11 January 2006 | title=US 'torture flights' stopped at Shannon | date=14 November 2004 |access-date=8 September 2005 |work=The Times |location=London | first=Stephen | last=Grey}}</ref><ref name="TheVillage051125">{{cite news|url=http://www.villagemagazine.ie/article.asp?sid=1&sud=41&aid=787 |title=Investigations into CIA 'torture flights' |date=25 November 2005 |work=[[Village (magazine)|Village]] |access-date=7 September 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5QeHq8qPT?url=http://www.villagemagazine.ie/article.asp?sid=1 |archive-date=27 July 2007 }}</ref> Police at [[Shannon Airport]] said that they had received political instruction not to approach, search or otherwise interfere with US aircraft suspected of being involved in extraordinary rendition flights. Irish Justice Minister [[Dermot Ahern]] sought permission from the US for random inspection of US flights, to provide political "cover" to him in case rendition flights were revealed to have used Shannon; he believed at least three flights had done so.<ref>Kelley, Dara,[http://www.irishcentral.com/news/WikiLeaks-reveal-Justice-Ministers-Dermot-Aherns-rendition-fears-112121564.html WikiLeaks reveals Justice Minister's Dermot Ahern's rendition fears] Irish Central, 18 December 2010.</ref> The European Parliament has censured Ireland for its role in facilitating extraordinary rendition and taking insufficient or no measures to uphold its obligations under the UN CAT.<ref name="Irish Times">[https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2007/0124/1169426831962.html EU to censure Ahern over rendition role] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012193532/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2007/0124/1169426831962.html |date=12 October 2012 }}, ''[[The Irish Times]]'', 24 January 2007.</ref>
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