A billboard featuring Hooded Man Kevin Hannaway was unveiled on Sunday — two days after it was seized by police.
Mr Hannaway died in January after a short illness.
He was one of the 14 ‘Hooded Men’ who claimed they were tortured by the security forces during the Troubles. The banner commemorating Mr Hannaway was seized from a property on Friday in West Belfast.
The artwork was subsequently handed back after the initiation of pre action correspondence in which legal proceedings were imminent. It was unveiled at Hugo Street in west Belfast yesterday.
Our Victoria Haddock of Phoenix Law acted in the challenge to the lawfulness of the PSNI seizure.
She stated: “There was no lawful basis for the seizure of this mural… the seizure had no lawful authority under any search warrant nor any relevance to the offences for which my client was arrested.
“The bigger question for the PSNI is how they can justify the deployment of such draconian powers without any basis, at the very same time as refusing to exercise any power whatsoever to remove offensive and criminal materials placed on bonfires.
“Such exercises only give rise to questions about discrimination to which we now intend to pursue via civil proceedings.”
