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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. The PFC asserts that the failure by the State to uphold Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law”, is the single most important explanation for the initiation and perpetuation of violent conflict. It is therefore implicit to conflict resolution that Article 7 be implemented in full. The PFC campaigns towards that goal.

26/10/2026

Almost 30 years after Sean Brown was kidnapped from a football club, British intelligence is still censoring files that could help solve his murder

21/10/2026

Read the full story here: https://www.declassifieduk.org/detective-murder-gang-got-guns-from-british-army/

A former detective chief inspector with the Metropolitan Police told a court in Belfast this week that 10 Downing Street knew, as long ago as 1973, that the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) – once the British Army’s largest regiment – was ‘totally subverted’ by loyalist paramilitaries.

It is the first time that Detective Chief Inspector Steve Morris has spoken publicly about what he discovered while working for the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) to review the 3,000-plus murders of the Troubles.

The UDR, said Morris, had been ‘subverted’ by the two largest loyalist paramilitary gangs – the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The evidence for this conclusion is contained in an intelligence report ‘Subversion in the UDR’ compiled for the Joint Intelligence Committee in 1973.

Morris was speaking at a civil court hearing in which a County Armagh family is seeking acknowledgement, apology and compensation from the Ministry of Defence for the murder in August 1975 of Sean Farmer, 32, a father of five, shot dead as he returned from a Gaelic football match in Dublin.

In court on Monday, counsel for the Farmer family asked Morris for his view on who was responsible for the murder. Morris replied that a gang of loyalists, the ‘vast, vast majority’ of whom were members, or former members, of the security forces, had killed him.

Morris was also asked about how high up the political ladder he believed this knowledge went and immediately replied: ‘As high as Ten Downing Street where the Prime Minister was briefed about it’. Conservative Ted Heath was Prime Minister at the time.

Morris told the court that Farmer had been killed by the Mid-Ulster UVF, specifically by two serving UDR men and one serving member of the police, using weapons and other equipment taken from British Army armouries.

Farmer had crossed the border returning from a football match in Dublin and was stopped at a bogus UDR road-block with men patrolling in what appeared to be full uniform and carrying British Army-issued weapons.

19/10/2026

The PFC were in court today to support the Farmer family.

Sean Farmer was shot dead along with his friend Colm McCartney at a dummy roadblock in County Armagh in 1975.

14/10/2026

Presentation on the case of Sean Brown deceased at Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith in London tonight Oct 14 ahead of Supreme Court Hearing on Oct 27.

13/10/2026

The family of Séan Brown urge the Irish Community in Britain to support the campaign for a public inquiry into his murder in 1997

THE family of murdered GAA man Seán Brown have called on the Irish community in Britain to suppor...

09/10/2026

08/10/2026

Can all our friends in London spread the word about this important event in support of the family of Sean Brown who was murdered locking the gates of Bellaghy GAA club in 1997.

06/10/2026

🤔 We’ll see

Evidence relating to a number of detention operations carried out by British personnel between 2010 and 2013 is being examined.

15/07/2026

Human Rights First is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) charitable organization (EIN # 13-3116646). We do not favor or oppose any candidate for public office.

09/07/2026

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