Interrogation centre had international reputation - BBC News
Dec 10, 1999 · In one three year period around this time more than 3,000 people were charged with terrorist offences based largely on confessions obtained at Castlereagh. The centre played a key role in the...
RUC station, Castlereagh, Belfast. Notorious for being the place in ...
RUC station, Castlereagh, Belfast. Notorious for being the place in which many IRA prisoners were interrogated. Known commonly as the Castlereagh Holding Centre. Bobbie was the only photographer allowed into the building to take photographs before it was demolished.
Torture, abuse and a suspect's death: An RUC holding centre …
Jan 2, 2015 · OVER TWO DECADES, thousands of paramilitaries were held and questioned at Castlereagh RUC barracks in Belfast. The holding centre was the subject of controversy as allegations about the...
A Look Back At The Raid On Castlereagh’s RUC Special Branch Office
Jan 29, 2016 · As Northern Ireland’s main terrorist interrogation centre during the Troubles, the fortress-like Castlereagh complex, in predominantly Protestant east Belfast, struck fear into the hearts of unionists and republicans alike.
Demolition starts at former RUC holding centre - The Irish Times
Mar 3, 2005 · Demolition work has begun at east Belfast's controversial Castlereagh holding centre. For over 30 years, the centre was one of the main RUC centres for the interrogation of paramilitary...
RUC Castlereagh Detention Centre door lock | Bicycles, Barracks ...
A door lock from a cell in the Castlereagh Detention Centre. By 1972, Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) detection rates had fallen to 21% down from the pre-Troubles level of 61.9%. During investigations, the threat of paramilitary violence prevented the police from identifying corroborating evidence and securing witnesses testimonies.
BBC News | NORTHERN IRELAND | Interrogation centre to close
Thousands of republican and loyalist paramilitaries have been questioned at Castlereagh over the last 30 years, which has been at the centre of controversy over claims of police ill-treatment....
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland): Alleged coerced confessions during ...
Jul 31, 1993 · Eight young men, Anthony Garland, Hugh McLaughlin, Stephen McMullen, Michael Hugh Beck, Daniel Pettigrew, Ciaran McAllister, Brendan McCrory and James Morgan, allege that they were ill-treated in incommunicado detention at Castlereagh Holding Centre in connection with bomb attacks in Belfast on security forces in the summer of 1991.
MI5 may have bugged RUC interrogation centre during the Troubles
Jun 1, 2016 · BRITISH intelligence officers may have secretly recorded every interrogation carried out by the RUC during the Troubles. The claim has been made by solicitors acting for four Derry men falsely...
NORTHERN IRELAND | RUC detectives face perjury charges - BBC …
Mr Green also said he had been "pressurised and tortured" by RUC detectives at Castlereagh holding centre and was forced to sign a confession to killing Mr O'Neill.
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