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PFC/ JFF Respond to British Government Amnesty claims

06 May 2021
Reports have been published in two London newspapers this morning that the British Government intends to introduce legislation which would restrict prosecutions of their soldiers who served in Northern Ireland and which would apply to all conflict participants.

Prosecutions, Imprisonment and the Stormont House Agreement

27 August 2020
A detailed analysis of potential legacy options as of April 2020 prepared by QUB academics and CAJ. Includes controversial proposals aimed at stimulating informed debate.

Labour calls for halt to bill shielding UK soldiers from prosecution

27 August 2020
Proposed Overseas Operations Bill would grant immunity from prosecution to British soldiers involved in torture and murder overseas.

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...

Court Docs-Crown V Nelson Rearraignment & Crown Opening

Brian Nelson trial 1992
11 February 2020
Trial documents from the 'prosecution' of FRU UDA agent Brian Nelson

PFC's submission to the Committee of Ministers

Submitted July 2019
17 September 2019
PFC recently made a submission to the Committee of Ministers regarding the ongoing failures of the British government to meet their Article 2 procedural duties to investigate under the McKerr group of cases.

PFC submission to UN Committee Against Torture

04 April 2019
Submission from the Pat Finucane Centre (PFC) to the United Nations Committee Against Torture 6th Periodic Review for the UK May 2019

Families Challenge MoD and Prime Minister in London

Pat Finucane Centre
26 October 2017
In November 2016 the families of Christopher Quinn and Kevin Heatley along with the Pat Finucane Centre utilised Advans in London to highlight the murders of their relatives and the appalling treatment they endured after the killings, in response to Theresa May's comments on those pushing for human...

Secretary of State's Rules of Engagement in Northern Ireland

Pat Finucane Centre
24 October 2017
A memo from a private secretary to the Secretary of State in 1975 suggesting that the SoS would like to see '... some form of dispensation permitting the Forces to open fire in an emergency without fear of subsequent legal action.' The author speculates that compensation claims by the relatives of...

Memo to Secretary of State on security options-Feb 1978 (added May 2018)

1978 memo to SoS (author unknown) outlining security options and highlighting the 'danger signs' that the (British) army are deploying patrols for "suppression" and Intelligence" with no intention of arresting and charging suspects. The memo goes on to suggest that any 'drift' back to army methods and goals is the "road that leads to executive action against terrorists, rather than...
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