<p>Actor first shared his childhood experiences as part of Amnesty International campaign and became Refuge ambassador</p><p>When Patrick Stewart was growing up in the 1940s, he witnessed how, after his father beat his mother, home doctors and ambulance workers would tell her: “You must have done something to provoke him.”</p><p>Stewart knew the violence was never warranted, a conviction that became the spark for a lasting commitment to campaigning for greater understanding of domestic abuse.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/30/domestic-abuse-charities-patrick-stewart-amnesty-international-refuge">Continue reading...</a>
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‘His honesty gave courage to survivors’: domestic abuse charities praise Patrick Stewart’s legacy
<p>Actor first shared his childhood experiences as part of Amnesty International campaign and became Refuge ambassador</p><p>When Patrick Stewart was growing up in the 1940s, he witnessed how, after his father beat his mother, home doctors and ambulance workers would tell her: “You must have done something to provoke him.”</p><p>Stewart knew the violence was never warranted, a conviction that became the spark for a lasting commitment to campaigning for greater understanding of domestic abuse.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/30/domestic-abuse-charities-patrick-stewart-amnesty-international-refuge">Continue reading...</a>