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  • Bloody Sunday 50 Years On - ONE WORLD, ONE STRUGGLE

    PAT FINUCANE CENTRE | 25 January 2022

    Attached please find a link to the full programme of this year's events to mark the 50th commemoration of Bloody Sunday https://bloodysunday50.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/programme_layout_…
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  • Supreme Court Rules PSNI Failure to Investigate 'Hooded Men' Case Illegal

    From the Declassified UK Website, 5 January 2021 | 05 January 2022

    ‘SOMETHING AWKWARD’: WHEN CONSERVATIVE MINISTERS AUTHORISED TORTURE The Supreme Court has ruled that Northern Irish police acted illegally in failing to properly investigate the case of the so-called ‘Hooded Men’. Police torture at a British army barracks was “deliberate policy”. A 1977 letter found...
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  • Legacy Practitioners Open Letter: legacy commitments in NDNA must be returned to

    Human Rights NGOs, academics, and lawyers express ‘deep concerns’ about NIO proposed legislation | 17 June 2021

    Thursday 17 June 2021 For immediate release An open letter endorsed by human rights NGOs, academics and lawyers raises deep concerns regarding the upcoming Northern Ireland legacy bill put forward in the Queen’s Speech 2021. The current British Government committed in the January 2020 (UK-Ireland)...
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  • PFC Submission to the Independent Review of the HRA Panel

    | 24 March 2021

    Submission by the PFC to the Independent Review of the Human Rights Act Panel- March 2021
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  • PFC's latest submission to the Committee of Ministers

    | 07 May 2020

    The Pat Finucane Centre (PFC, Derry/Armagh/Belfast, Northern Ireland) in conjunction with Justice for the Forgotten (JFF, Dublin) wishes to make the following Rule 9 submission to the Committee of Ministers on its supervision of the following cases relating to security force actions in Northern...
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