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'He was in bed wearing nothing but his underwear, there is no doubt he was summarily executed'
Michael Dwyer’s family continue to seek justice for their son.
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Michael Dwyer’s family continue to seek justice for their son.
“All I want is justice and the truth,” Caroline Dwyer, mother of Michael who was shot dead in 2009, said today.
The Tipperary man was shot dead in Bolivia in 2009. Authorities state he had links to a terrorist group – something his family categorically refutes.
Everybody’s talking about the Greyhound strike agreement, Joan Burton’s car being blocked, and Kurds fleeing from Islamic State.
Caroline Dwyer also described finally seeing the room where her son died.
Caroline Dwyer travelled to Bolivia to call for an independent international investigation into his death.
Michael Dwyer died from a single gunshot wound inflicted at a Santa Cruz hotel.
Everyone’s talking about Enda Kenny promising to act on Priory Hall and the death of Ariel Castro.
The family heard that a man testified that he saw Michael alive some time after the initial police raid on the Las Americas Hotel.
Until now, the official line was that Dwyer had died in a shootout with police in Bolivia.
Everyone’s talking about the Irish people in Cairo, Michael Dwyer, and Scotland Yard looking at the death of Princess Diana (again).
Michael Dwyer was shot dead during a Bolivian police raid in a hotel in 2009.
The family of an Irish man killed by Bolivian state police in 2009 is travelling to the European Parliament today, seeking to secure information about his death.
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