Support from Scotkand for Republican prison protest

national | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Monday July 10, 2006 18:17 by RSF - Republican Sinn Fein

REPUBLICAN PRISONERS NEED YOUR SUPPORT

SUPPORT THE POWs

Monday, 11 July 2006

REPUBLICAN PRISONERS NEED YOUR SUPPORT

The Francis Hughes Cumann of Republican Sinn Fein (Glasgow) gives its full support to the 38 Republican POWs in Maghaberry Prison who are protesting for better conditions and the restoration of political status. They are demanding: free association, an end to controlled movement, the right of access to full time education, a separate visiting facility and the right to organise their own landings. The POWs have made it clear that they will continue the protest until their just demands are implemented.

It is tragic that Republican POWS are forced to take on the British government because political status which was won by Bobby Sands and his nine comrades in the H Blocks of Long Kesh twenty-five years ago, has been removed under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement

In Glasgow thousands of people marched recently to commemorate the ten H - Block Martyrs who died in 1981 in opposition to the efforts of the British government to criminalise the Republican prisoners and the freedom struggle. Today the issues are no different and we call upon those same marchers and everyone who believes in justice in Scotland to support the campaign for the restoration of political status. Help to avert another tragedy and stop this latest attempt by the British government to brand “Ireland’s fight 800 years of crime”.

The mainstream media is deliberately ignoring the prison protest. You can help to break the silence by publicising the plight of the prisoners and by attending planned events in support of their just demands. For updated statements from the POWs and the Republican Prisoners Action Group, log on to the website of the Francis Hughes Cumann of Republican Sinn Fein at www.rsfglasgow.com.

PRO
Francis Hughes Cumann
Republican Sinn Fein
Glasgow

E-Mail: glasgowrsf@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.rsfglasgow.com