HUMAN rights lawyer Amal Clooney is to travel to Ireland to meet with the ‘Hooded Men’, whose case she is spearheading in Europe.
Mrs Clooney will travel to Belfast next month as part of a legal team leading the international human rights case between Ireland and Britain – as they aim to get justice for 14 Irish men who were allegedly tortured at the hands of British forces.
It is understood Mrs Clooney will meet with the surviving men in the North of Ireland, who claim that former British Prime Minister Ted Heath was aware of the torture policy during the Troubles.
She will be among a team representing the group as they aim to get their case heard in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg – after fresh evidence uncovered in London last year led to the case being re-examined.
The 'Hooded Men' claim they were subjected to a variety of torture methods in the 1970s, at the height of the troubles, including sleep deprivation and starvation, by British forces.
At the time they took to a case against Britain to court – but the judge ruled in favour of Britain.
Next month Mrs Clooney is expected to travel to Belfast with her husband, actor George Clooney, to meet the nine remaining 'Hooded Men'.
