This week the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement heard disturbing evidence from three witnesses about the situation inside Maghaberry Prison. Conal Mc Feeley, Peter Bunting and John Finucane gave evidence.
The PFC has maintained on-going contact with the solicitor acting on behalf of Derry republican Tony Taylor and we share the widespread concerns at his continuing detention without trial. We have raised these concerns with the Chief Constable and at meetings with different Justice Ministers and...
A DERRY priest has joined a campaign for the release from prison of leading dissident republican Tony Taylor. Holy Family parish priest Fr Paddy O’Kane said he also prayed for Taylor’s case during Sunday Mass last week.
A PRISONER has been found dead in Maghaberry jail, the third death in the Co Antrim prison in the past month. It is understood the 34-year-old prisoner was found in his cell at the high security facility.
EX-JUSTICE minister David Ford failed to enforce a deal to limit controversial prisoner strip-searches because he was probably beholden to the DUP, a parliamentary watchdog has been told.
Mr Justice Treacy, sitting today in the High Court in Belfast, allowed a judicial review challenging the Prison Service policy by which forced strip searches are recorded on a video camera and retained for a period of six years
The PFC is a non-party political, anti-sectarian human rights group advocating a non-violent resolution of the conflict on the island of Ireland. We believe that all participants to the conflict have violated human rights.
Today, parole commissioners for Northern Ireland will decide whether to order the release of the IRA veteran Marian Price from Maghaberry prison. The 57-year-old has been held since last May, when the Northern Ireland secretary, Owen Patterson, signed an order revoking her licence.
The PFC is arguing for the release of Belfast woman Marian Price and Lurgan man Martin Corey from Maghaberry jail on the basis that both are effectively interned without trial — contrary to all domestic and international human rights standards. Ms. Price was sent to jail last May by an order of the...
We write to express our deep concern at the revocation of Marion Price’s licence. We note that her solicitor described this as “unlawful as it rode a coach and horses through the presumption of innocence.”
This unannounced short follow-up inspection of Hydebank Wood Young Offenders Centre (YOC) and Ash House was undertaken by Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI), Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales (HMIP), and was supported by staff from the Education and Training...
