Amnesty ‘at a loss’ over SIPO ‘reversal’
SIPO wrote to Amnesty to tell them they had to return a €137,000 donation from George Soros’s foundation
Amnesty International Ireland’s executive director Colm O’Gorman has said he is “at a loss to understand” what has changed since the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) told them in 2016 they didn’t need to refuse foreign donations.
O’Gorman told The Sunday Business Post that in October 2016, after lengthy correspondence with SIPO on George Soros’s funding of Amnesty’s ‘My Body, My Rights’ campaign through his Open Society Foundation, that the commission had ...
