The review, carried out by a senior barrister, strongly criticised police’s handling of the case and questioned whether officers should ever have investigated Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey
The UK has been ranked in the third tier of the global index - below Chile, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic - due to the “chilling effect” of policing, government policies and the treatment of journalists
The Policing Board's human rights adviser, John Wadham, told The Detail that he had concerns that people’s community backgrounds were not being properly recorded
The lead author of a major UN report into sand mining said he was not aware of issues around sand extraction at Lough Neagh until they were highlighted by The Detail