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Q & A - Is there a witch-hunt against ex British soldiers?

2 February 2018 | 15 February 2018

A quick question and answer guide to the current debate around prosecutions of former soldiers, 'letters of comfort' and the alleged 'witch-hunt'. (Updated February 2018)
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PFC VEHEMENTLY OPPOSES WESTMINSTER PROPOSAL TO GRANT IMPUNITY FOR EX-BRITISH SOLDIERS AND RUC

PFC response to today's report | 26 April 2017

The PFC will oppose proposals in a report from the Westminster Defence Select Committee which recommends the protection from prosecution of British soldiers and RUC personnel, regardless of the evidence against them. This "Statue of Limitations", while coupled with a "truth recovery mechanism", woul...
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Website of the Batang Kali families

PFC | 15 December 2016

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Permission granted in Batang Kali Massacre Case

Joint Press Release from KRW Law, The Pat Finucane Centre and Rights Watch UK | 04 May 2015

Supreme Court in London grants permission for the Pat Finucane Centre and Rights Watch UK to intervene in 1948 Batang Kali Massacre Case
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New documents reveal cover-up of 1948 British "massacre" of villagers in Malaya

Mark Townsend, The Guardian | 09 April 2011

Foreign Office intervened to halt an investigation in the 1990s by Malaysian authorities into the deaths of 24 unarmed villagers
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Family of Pat Finucane respond to the early release of convicted murderer Ken Barrett

PFC | 23 May 2006

Speaking on behalf of the Finucane family Michael Finucane said: "The release of Ken Barrett was inevitable and although the timing is perhaps a little surprising, the event itself is not. However, the significance of Mr. Barrett should not be overestimated. The real focus for my family is to succee...
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Press Statement on behalf of the Finucane Family and United States House of Representatives Resolution 740

PFC | 19 May 2006

On 17th May 2006 in Washington, DC, the United States House of Representatives voted in favour of House Resolution 740, which calls on the British Government to establish immediately a full, independent, public judicial inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, as recommended by international Judge P...
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Pat Finucane Centre/ Inquiry advice ignored

Daily Ireland | 22 March 2006

The British government is ignoring opposition and working to set up an inquiry into Pat Finucane’s 1989 murder under the terms of the discredited Inquiries Act, the Taoiseach said last night.
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Finucane

Chris Thornton, Belfast Telegraph | 06 February 2006

The seventeenth anniversary of Pat Finucane's murder comes round in six days. When the defence lawyer was shot dead in front of his family back in 1989, there were almost immediate suspicions that there was more to his death than met the eye. Over the years, those suspicions have become well-grounde...
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Canadian Judge Peter Cory slams Finucane Inquiry legislation

Press release | 15 March 2005

In a letter addressed to the head of a US Congressional Committee and released earlier tonight Judge Peter Cory has slamed the current legislation which is intended to define the remit and scope of the inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Judge Cory, who was appointed by the Irish and British go...
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Pat Finucane and the Inquiries Act - Amnesty International calls for boycott

Amnesty International | 20 April 2005

Amnesty International calls on all judges, whether in the United Kingdom (UK) or in other jurisdictions, to decline appointments as chairs or panel members to any inquiry established under the recently enacted Inquiries Act 2005, including an inquiry into allegations of state collusion in the murder...
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Inquiries Bill Passed

PFC Press Statement | 07 April 2005

As feared the Inquiries Bill passed the final stages in Westminster earlier today despite the strong objections of NGOs, the legal community and most importantly, the Finucane family. The new legislation is widely perceived as a legislative attempt to deny the Finucane family access to vital informa...
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Letter from Mrs Geraldine Finucane to all senior judges in England, Scotland and wales

Mrs Geraldine Finucane | 14 April 2005

Mrs Geraldine Finucane has written a letter to all senior judges in England Scotland and Wales requesting that, if asked, they indicate that they would not be prepared to accept any appointment to an Inquiries Act inquiry, into the murder of her husband
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Full page advertisement placed in The Times, London, highlighting Geraldine Finucane's letter to judges

The Times | 14 April 2005

Mrs Geraldine Finucane has written a letter to all senior judges in England Scotland and Wales requesting that, if asked, they indicate that they would not be prepared to accept any appointment to an Inquiries Act inquiry, into the murder of her husband.
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The Inquiries Bill: The Wrong Answer.

A Joint Statement by Amnesty International, British Irish Rights Watch, The Committee on the Administration of Justice, Human Rights First, The Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, INQUEST, JUSTICE, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, T | 22 March 2005

The above-listed organisations jointly express our concern over some of the provisions of the Inquiries Bill introduced into Parliament on 24th November 2004. The Bill, being discussed this week by a Standing Committee of the House of Commons, would, if enacted, alter fundamentally the system for es...
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