Patrick Corrigan

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Human rights activist. Head of Nations & Regions and NI Programme Director at Amnesty International UK. Board member, Human Rights Consortium. Integrated school governor.

Pic from Great Refugee Week Picnic 2026, Belfast.
Pic of me with large Pride flag on Dublin City Council HQ
Irish News article: Police Ombudsman ‘blocking’ own report into Martin O’Hagan murder
Screenshot from Belfast Telegraph: "TalkTV pays ‘substantial damages’ to NI drag act in defamation settlement linked to children’s story time row"
Report: Abuse of Position for Sexual Purposes by PSNI Officers -Analysis and Emerging Findings
Image: clip from Guardian newspaper, Sep 13 2025
Sunday World article: summary -- The Sunday World’s Hugh Jordan was informed this week that he was one of eight reporters who had been spied on by the PSNI. Today the veteran reporter says the authorities should always remember that journalism isn’t a crime.
Judge Howard Morrison enters a courtroom at the International Criminal Court – © ICC-CPI
McCullough Review: Arrangements for publication of the Review report on Wednesday 24 September 2025
Screenshot of BBC report: Trump visit will be out of sight of public. Photo caption: Security fences have been set up in front of Windsor Castle There have been protesters in Windsor with anti-Trump placards while US flags are hung along the high street in welcome. But the visiting president won’t see either opponents or supporters, because the visit is going to take place entirely away from the public.
Text: IN THE INVESTIGATORY POWERS TRIBUNAL At 10:30am BETWEEN (1) MR VINCENT KEARNEY (2) BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION CLAIMANTS and THE CHIEF CONSTABLE OF THE POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND and OTHERS RESPONDENT And MR CHRISTOPHER DAVID SAMUEL MOORE CLAIMANTS and THE CHIEF CONSTABLE OF THE POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND and OTHERS RESPONDENT
Screenshot of list of documents from the 1980s on the NI Department of Education website
Front cover of research report: POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL EXPERIENCES OF 16-21 YEAR OLD PEOPLE WHO ARE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND/OR TRANSGENDER (LGBT)
"In the ensuing days of violent disorder, described by police as "racist thuggery", families were burned out of their homes and more than 100 police officers were injured. Around a quarter of those arrested (14) were aged under 18. According to police data, minors are statistically rare perpetrators of domestic abuse, accounting for less than 4% of cases each year. Last month, The Detail reported that almost half of those arrested for the August 2024 race riots in Belfast had previously been reported for domestic abuse. Nine of the 48 people arrested were minors."
Image of racist violence with headline: One in three arrested for Ballymena riots had been reported for domestic abuse - screenshot from The Detail article by Luke Butterly
Headline from Belfast Telegraph: Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank
Photo by Kevin Scott showing a house door in Ballymena with stickers of flags, including one proclaiming 'Filipino lives here'
Patrick Corrigan of Amnesty International speaking at a protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza. The protest took place outside Barclays Bank in Belfast. Image shows a protestor and a police officer in the background. Photograph courtesy of Brendan Harkin.
Trevor Birney and Chris Moore in conversation at book launch
Belfast Stands Against Racism Sunday - 12:30pm Belfast City Hall Graphic shows logos of over 120 groups which have endorsed the event
Irish News - National Trust move puts Mournes gondola in doubt JOHN MANLEY POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT PLANS to build a cable car and visitor centre on the slopes of Slieve Donard have suffered a significant setback with the National Trust pausing its engagement with the council behind the project. Without the trust’s approval, Newry Mourne and Down District Council’s multi-million-pound flagship project cannot be built. The conservation charity’s move comes as it emerged that it was forced to submit a freedom of information request to the council and the Department for the Economy in an effort to secure the full business case for the controversial venture, which it stresses it does not endorse. The trust, which owns Thomas’s Quarry where the planned visitor centre would be located, last year signed a memorandum of understanding with the council, yet to date it has not received the requested document.
'Making a noise' - interview of Joan Baez and accompanying images from double-page spread in the Spring 2025 issue of Amnesty magazine
Front cover of report: PSNI and NISRA Incidents and Crimes with a Hate Motivation Recorded by the Police in Northern Ireland Update to 31st December 2024
Image of a poster advertising a march and rally. Text - Tell Trump: Hands off Gaza! No to ethnic cleansing. No to US occupation. End US support for Israel's genocide. Gaza is not for sale. Saturday 1 March. 1pm gather at Queen's University Belfast. March to US Consulate.
Table showing how UNGA members voted on the Ukraine resolution.
The international criminal court in The Hague issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. Photograph: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock via The Guardian - link: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/mar/17/vladimir-putin-icc-arrest-warrant-kremlin-russia-spin
How transparent are think tanks - UK results table from Transparify. Table shows Amnesty International and various other groups ranked as 'highly transparent' and Policy Exchange as one of the three least transparent, 'highly opaque' think tanks in UK in relation to funding.
Allison Morris giving evidence to the NI Affairs Committee
Image of witnesses at the NI Affairs Committee evidence session.
Resist Trump and Musk. Protect liberty. Reject US fascism at home and abroad. Wednesday 5th February, 16:30. Assemble at the US Consulate, Belfast. In every American city, citizens will protest the dangerous and unconstitutional actions of an Administration that threatens world security and human rights. Stand with them here.
Forty journalists and lawyers make complaints to PSNI snooping review A review set up to investigate PSNI snooping operations has received around 50 responses. The McCullough Review was established last year after it emerged that police has been spying on journalists. The review, headed by London based barrister Angus McCullough KC, is focused on journalists, lawyers and non-governmental organisations, while the Policing Board and Police Ombudsman also fall under its terms of reference. In a report to the policing board last year the PSNI admitted making 823 applications for communications data for journalists and lawyers over a 13-year period from 2011-2024.
Westminster committee to examine PSNI snooping as part of ‘press freedom’ inquiry NI Affairs Committee to hold hearings next month By Connla Young, Crime and Security Correspondent January 23, 2025 at 6:00am GMT A prominent Westminster committee will investigate the extent of PSNI spying on journalists, lawyers and human rights campaigners when it launches an inquiry into press freedom next month. The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (NIAC) Inquiry into Press Freedoms and Safety in Northern Ireland comes after it emerged police have been spying on journalists and others on an industrial scale over many years. Investigative journalists, Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, who were recently found to have been unlawfully snooped on by police, are expected to appear at the committee. Last month the powerful Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) found the PSNI and Metropolitan Police approved a snooping operation against the pair. The London-based tribunal looks at complaints from people who believe they have been the victim of unlawful covert interference.
Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu - with scene of devastation of Gaza in background
Baby Jesus wrapped in a black-and-white checkered keffiyeh, lying in a pile of rubble at the side of the altar in Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, 2023.
"Shame must change sides" - Gisèle Pelicot
Patrick Corrigan and Joan Baez, pictured holding a framed copy of Seamus Heaney's poem, From the Republic of Conscience, written for Amnesty International in 1985 - at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy.
Scene of devastation in Gaza, with the text: 'This is genocide'
Screenshot showing a troll on Bluesky.