Press releases Archives – Page 3 of 5

CAJ regularly issues press releases to help keep human rights on the media agenda.

Nov

CAJ statement on Paul O’Connor

25/11/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

CAJ has issued a statement on Paul O’Connor, Director of the Pat Finucane Centre, in response to the media coverage he received over the past weekend: “CAJ wishes to put on record that we have worked with Paul O’Connor, Director of the Pat Finucane Centre, for many years. He has been – and continues to...

Nov

CAJ concern at ongoing secrecy regarding MI5 remit over British Army operations in Northern Ireland

14/11/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

CAJ has expressed concern at the ongoing secrecy over the potential operational relationship between MI5 and military units operating in Northern Ireland. This follows a ruling by the First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights) (1) to block disclosure of a section (henceforward referred to as ‘the disputed paragraph’) of the British Army’s terms of reference for ‘Operation...

Sep

NI Court of Appeal holds that the Hooded Men were tortured and that there should be a new investigation

20/09/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

The Court of Appeal in Belfast today held that the treatment meted out to the ‘Hooded Men’, if it occurred today, would “properly be characterised as torture”. They further held that the Chief Constable had promised a criminal investigation, which has not yet happened, but that any investigation by the PSNI Legacy Investigation Branch or...

Sep

Complaint made by CAJ against Translink for facilitating discriminatory passport checks on cross-border buses

17/09/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

CAJ has submitted a breach of equality scheme complaint against Translink in response to the company facilitating discriminatory passport checks on its cross-border transport services. The complaint has been made by CAJ on behalf of 17 directly affected passengers. Over recent months, concern has been building over the increasing number of passport and identity checks...

Sep

Civic and business groups call for the Good Friday Agreement to be protected in US-UK trade talks

04/09/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

CAJ joins with a range of civic and business groups in writing an open letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker in the US House of Representatives, on the need to protect the NI peace settlement during US-UK trade talks. As US Vice President Mike Pence continues his visit to Ireland and the UK, a consortium of...

Jun

Joint statement: No Deal Emergency

07/06/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

CAJ and other members of the Brexit and Human Rights Working Group share concerns about the increased possibility of a ‘No Deal’ Brexit. As representatives of Civil Society, we believe that Northern Ireland is on the brink of a No Deal Brexit emergency. In an evolving political landscape, a variety of factors indicate that the...

May

Representatives of three NI NGOs to address the UN on the UK’s record on torture

02/05/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

Next week representatives of three local NGOs will be travelling to Geneva to address members of the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) regarding the UK’s compliance with its international obligations on the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. Andrée Murphy and Irati Aiesta from Relatives for Justice, Gemma McKeown from the Committee...

Mar

Committee of Ministers decision – international community asks UK to provide timeframe on introducing Stormont House Agreement legacy legislation into Westminster

15/03/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has published its latest decisions in relation to the scrutiny of the ‘cases concerning the actions of the security forces in Northern Ireland’, otherwise known as the McKerr group of cases. This follows on from a meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies, which took place in Strasburg earlier this...

Feb

Statement from CAJ on the Supreme Court judgment in the case of Pat Finucane

27/02/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

CAJ is pleased with the unanimous decision of the UK Supreme Court to uphold the appeal taken by Geraldine Finucane in relation to the murder of her husband Pat Finucane. Pat Finucane was murdered on 12 February 1989 and although David Cameron admitted in 2012 that there were ‘shocking levels of collusion’ in this murder...

Feb

Press statement: CAJ responds to the Police Ombudsman’s reports being held up by PSNI failure to disclose information

14/02/2019Committee on the Administration of JusticeNews, Press releases

The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) has said that a number of his reports into past killings, which may have involved collusion, will be delayed because of police failure to disclose information. CAJ understands that new information on the activities of Loyalist murder squads has come to light. The PSNI claims that ‘human error’...

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