Irish Republican Prisoners

T
he IRPSG recognise that the On International Human Rights Day,
Prison authorities never in- December 10, the IRPSG handed in a
Support Group tended to adhere to the Au- letter to 10 Downing Street protesting
gust agreement over the the treatment of Irish political prison-
treatment of Republican prisoners in ers. On the same day nearly 150 po-
Political Status for Irish Republican prisoners! Maghaberry. Conditions for prisoners litical prisoners in West Bengal started
there are worse now than when the an indefinite hunger strike. In New
Free all anti-imperialist political prisoners! struggle began last Easter. As RNU Ard Delhi on December 24 human rights
Chomhairle member, Carl Reilly, ob- activist Dr Binayak Sen, Vice-President
Bloody Sunday served on 21 November 2010: of the People's Union for Civil Liber-
“Since August, prisoners and their ties was sentenced to life imprison-
Anniversary Meeting families have continued to endure ment with Naxal ideologue Narayan
ongoing harassment and intimidation. Sanyal and Kolkata-based business-
Conway Hall, Red Lion The Prison Service has now added an man Piyush Guha.
Square, London WC1 oral examination which was not part Islamophobia has made Muslims the
Bobby Sands in Long Kesh: “Our revenge of the Maghaberry agreement. Any new Irish: Mohammed Hamid was
(nearest tube: Holborn) will be the laughter of our children”. person who refuses to comply with jailed indefinitely with a minimum
Mumia Abu Jamal in SCI Greene Prison:
7.00 pm Monday “Here and there in the barrios and the
this humiliating exercise is forcibly term of seven-and-a-half years - the
favelas, among those who have least, beat held-down by riot-clad Screws who first time an Imprisonment for Public
31 January 2011 hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming”. prize their jaws open and insert their Protection sentence has been used in
fingers and torches into the POW’s a terrorist case. His “crimes” were
mouth”. paintballing, camping and possession
Speakers
Ashleen McKenna, with two brothers of a few radical DVDs.
Martin Óg Meehan, Republican Network for Unity in Maghaberry, said last July: On December 9 thousands of Georgia
“The screws treat the POWs with a prisoners went on strike for their hu-
Lee Jasper, Secretary National Assembly Against Racism
hostile nature and on a daily basis the man rights. It was the biggest prisoner
Speaker from Committee For the Release of Indian Political Prisoners UK POWs are strip searched. This is just a protest in the history of the US. They
tactic used by the screws to humiliate demanded not to be treated like
Speaker from Free Mumia Abu Jamal Campaign our men. Over the past year the slaves and animals. For over 29 years
screws have been actively violent to- Mumia Abu Jamal has been on death
Yasmin Cass to speak about her dad Mohammed Hamid wards the prisoners, which has re- row in the US because he was and still
sulted in several POWs being as- is a powerful political opponent of the
Michael Holden, Irish Republican Prisoners Support Group racist imperialist US state.
saulted. The prisoners are subjected
Chair: Gerry Downing, Secretary IRPSG to 23 hour lock downs with only two Join the IRPSG in campaigning for po-
meals a day which are served in dis- litical status for all Irish POW’s. Free
“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the posable containers and slid along the all anti-imperialist political prisoners
spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken” - Bobby Sands floor to the prisoners.” internationally!—Beir Bua!