IRPWA: DIRTY PROTEST NELL’ALA E3 DELLA PRIGIONE DI PORTLAOISE

E’ con grande rammarico che l’IRPWA invita la famiglia repubblicanaa a sostenere ancora una volta i POWs (prisoner of war, ndr) nella loro protesta contro la palese ingiustizia del sistema carcerario in Irlanda.
L’IRPWA è stata incaricata dai POWs repubblicani a precisare come e perché si è verificatoa questa protesta e di chiarirne le ragioni
Una protesta è attualmente in corso nell’ala E3 di Portlaoise Prison a causa della sospensione dei programmi di ‘rilascio temporaneo’ (TR, temporary release ndr) e del ‘rilascio compassionevole’ (CR, compassionate release ndr). E ‘ convinzione dei POW’s che questa sia una ritorsione alle azioni dell’ IRA nelle sei contee occupate, infatti, l’Irish Prison Service ha incaricato alcuni dei suoi portavoce a chiedere all’OC (Officer Commanding, ndr) dell’ala E3 se ‘crede nel frontiera’!
La situazione attuale è la seguente: due prigionieri repubblicani (Vinny Kelly e Justin McCarthy) sono attualmente impegnati in una no wash/dirty protest, non in una blanket protest come inizialmente lasciato trapelare.
Ad intervalli di tempo, tutti i POWs repubblicani aderiranno alla protesta, e in quella fase, vi sarà la sua escalation.
Il rappresentante dell’Irish Prison Service e il governatore hanno chiesto all’OC di riconsiderare la posizione dei POWs in attesa di un colloquio con il Free State Government. L’unica concessione dei POW sè stata di ritardare l’adesione di altri uomini alla protesta per un breve periodo di tempo per dare loro la possibilità di risolvere il problema. E’ impressione dell’IRPWA, che questa finestra di opportunità si chiuderà rapidamente e per questo ci appelliamo a tutti coloro che sono coinvolti nel Free State Government e nell’Irish Prison Service, a compiere notevoli sforzi per risolvere questa situazione intollerabile, non appena possibile.

Seguono il comunicato ufficiale dell’IRPWA e il comunicato ufficiale dei POW dell’ala E3 di Portlaoise Prison all’Irish Prison Service

Protest on E3 Portlaoise Gaol (IRPWA)
It is with great regret that the IRPWA call upon the republican family to once again support POW’s in their protest against the blatant injustice of the Prison system in Ireland.
The IRPWA have been tasked by the republican POW’s to state how and why this protest has occurred and to clarify the facts of this protest.
A protest is currently underway on E3 Portlaoise due to the suspension of the temporary release (TR) and compassionate release (CR) programmes. It is the belief of the POW’s that this has happened due to IRA actions in the occupied six counties, indeed the Irish Prison Service have indicated this much and one of their spokespersons has even asked the OC of E3 if he ‘Believed in the border’!
The situation at present is as follows: Two republicans prisoners (Vinny Kelly and Justin McCarthy) are currently involved in a no wash/dirty protest, NOT on the blanket as some have suggested. At intervals republican POW’s will join this protest until the whole landing is on protest , at this stage the protest will escalate.
The Irish Prison Service representative and the Governor have asked the Officer Commanding to reconsider the POW’s stance pending talks with the Free State government, the only concession the POW’s have been willing to make at this stage is to delay further men joining the protest for a short period to give them a chance to resolve the issue. It is the understanding of the IRPWA that this window of opportunity is fast closing and we would urge all those involved in the Free State government and the Irish Prison Service to make strenuous efforts to resolve this intolerable situation as soon as possible.

Statement from Republican Prisoners E3 to the Irish Prison Service.
The Irish Prison Service (IPS) states in its mission statement that one of its goals is to try to maintain relationships between prisoners and their families. This is one of the reasons for it’s Temporary Release (TR) programme. When a prisoner is released his chances of settling back into normal family relationships are improved. The programme was also to help prisoners to seek housing accommodation and social welfare payments and help further their education upon release.
The process for Political prisoners has always been compassionate on TR. We have always obeyed the rules set out surrounding releases of this nature. We have always maintained the integrity of being Republican prisoners by returning on time and there has never been an issue with this. We recognise the importance of these releases on the grounds that if we are to maintain family ties important events must be attended. In the past the IPS has allowed Republican prisoners to attend funerals of family and loved ones. It has also allowed for important religious events such as Christenings, First Holy Communions and Confirmations.
It has recently stopped all of this without any explanation being given. Examples of this include denials of applications to attend children’s First Holy Communions and funerals of close relatives. One application was submitted when a Republican prisoner’s only aunt passed away and the application came back denied after the funeral had already taken place. Another application was denied for a prisoner to attend the funeral of his twin’s mother and denied again for the twins Confirmation eight months after the death of their mother.
We the Republican prisoners of E3 landing will not tolerate this blatant discrimination and unjust treatment. It is only following recenet events in the six counties that this unfair treatment of our prisoners has intensified. We believe it is directly related and until the IPS and the Governor of Portlaoise Prison are willing to stop this harassment and mistreatment of all Republican prisoners we will commence protest. We will not be used as leverage for the British and Free State governments.

Liberi i Derry Four

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Liberi i Derry Four

Il processo contro i “Derry 4″, accusati di appartenenza ad un’organizzazione illegale, è crollato.

Al Tribunale Penale Speciale (Special Criminal Court) di Dublino il pubblico ministero ha annunciato di non voler procedere con l’istruzione del processo.

I quattro uomini, tutti di Derry, erano accusati di essere coinvolti nelle attività paramilitari repubblicane.

Giovedì la Corte aveva dichiarato che il loro arresto, avvenuto nella Contea di Donegal nel mese di marzo, è stato illegittimo.

Gli uomini - Gary Donnelly, 38 anni di Kildrun Gardens, Michael Gallagher, 28, di Sackville Court, Patrick John McDaid, 39, di Marlborough Street e Martin Francis O’Neill di Colmcille Court - si erano dichiarati tutti non colpevoli.

Ai tre giudici nel tribunale senza giuria era stato detto che i poliziotti avevano agito in base alle informazioni che prevedevano una dimostrazione di forza (Show of strength) per i mezzi di comunicazione da parte di un gruppo paramilitare.

50 I PRIGIONIERI REPUBBLICANI ANCORA IN CARCERE

Sono passati dieci anni da quando nel 1998 vennero aperte le porte del Maze ai detenuti repubblicani e lealisti nel rispetto di quanto stabilito dall’Accordo del Venerdì Santo (Good Friday Agreement n.d.r.).
Ad oggi sono circa 50 i detenuti ancora rinchiusi nelle carceri sia in Irlanda del Nord, che nella Repubblica di Irlanda.
31 si trovano in una sezione separta del carcere di Maghaberry. Quasi tutti appartenenti alla Continuity IRA ed alcuni affiliati alla Real IRA. L’unico di questi ad aver usufruito della scarcerazione fu John Brady originario di Strabane. Rilasciato nel 1998, venne arrestato nuovamente nel 2004 e successivamente scarcerato sulla base dell’inattendibilità della prova del DNA. Questo non ha significato la libertà per John brady, in quanto ora si trova a dover scontare un condanna all’ergastolo precedente.
Nel carcere di Portlaoise Co Laois, la stragrande maggioranza dei detenuti repubblicani sono affiliati al Real IRA, di cui un nome di spicco è Michael McKevitt.
Ci sono otto prigionieri appartenenti all’INLA a Portlaoise, la maggior parte in custodia preventiva in attesa di processo per accuse che vanno dal appartenenza all’organizzazione, al possesso di armi.
Infine sono 2 i prigionieri che si trovano al di fuori del territorio irlandese. Michael Campbell (36) originario di Dundalk, è stato arrestato in Lituania perchè sospettato di acquistare armi da fuoco ed esplosivi per la Real IRA.
Noel Maguire, condannato insieme ad altri quattro uomini per attentati della Real IRA a Londra e sta scontando una condanna di 22 anni in un carcere nel Cambridgeshire (Regno Unito).
All’inizio di questo mese il ministro della giustizia irlandese Dermot Ahern, rifiutato l’eenesima richiesta avanzata da Maguire per il trasferimento di Portlaoise, dicendo che egli non è riuscito a dimostrare di avere legami familiari nel Paese.

50 republicans still in prison - Dissident violence has to stop
History was made in 1998 when the gates of the Maze prison opened and republican and loyalist inmates were freed under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
But 10 years on from their early release – agreed as part of efforts to consign the Troubles to history – there are around 50 republican prisoners in jails north and south of the border.
Maghaberry jail has 31 inmates housed in its republican ‘separated’ unit.
The only one to have had his early release licence revoked is John Brady from Strabane.
Released from the Maze in 1998 after serving seven years for the murder of RUC reservist David Black in 1989, he was arrested in 2004 and charged with allegedly attempting to kill a part-time RIR soldier two years earlier.
The charge was later dropped by the Public Prosecution Service, which had been due to rely on controversial ‘low copy number’ DNA evidence but he remains in jail for the previous life sentence.
The majority of republican prisoners in Maghaberry are affiliated with Continuity IRA, with a handful of Real IRA prisoners also held on the wing.
Also in Maghaberry are two of the four men convicted of the Provisional IRA kidnapping of veteran republican Bobby Tohill in 2004.
Tommy Tolan and Gerard McCrory, both from west Belfast, handed themselves in to police in January 2007 after a period of being unlawfully at large.
In Portlaoise prison in Co Laois, the vast majority of republican inmates are affiliated to the Real IRA.
The most high-profile of these is Michael McKevitt, serving a 20-year jail term for directing terrorism. One of the founding members of the Real IRA, the veteran republican has since turned his back on his former associates.
There are eight alleged INLA prisoners in Portlaoise, the majority on remand awaiting trial for charges ranging from membership of the organisation to possession of weapons.
Armagh man Declan Duffy is among them, having been arrested earlier this year and charged with membership.
West Belfast man Gerard Mackin has also been in Portlaoise and is now on trial in Dublin’s Special Criminal Court charged with the murder of Eddie Burns in the city in March last year.
Two other republican prisoners are being held in jails outside of Ireland.
Dundalk man Michael Campbell (36) is being detained in Lithuania on suspicion of buying firearms and explosives for the Real IRA.
The last republican prisoner in England, Noel Maguire, was convicted along with four other men for a Real IRA bombing campaign and is serving 22 years in a prison in Cambridgeshire.
Earlier this month the Republic’s justice minister Dermot Ahern turned down a request by Maguire for transfer to Portlaoise, saying he had failed to prove he has family links in the jurisdiction.

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CARCERI: ALFANO INCONTRA MINISTRO GIUSTIZIA IRLANDESE

(AGI) - Roma, 17 ott. - Il ministro della Giustizia Angelino Alfano ha ricevuto in via Arenula il ministro della Giustizia irlandese Dermot Ahern, che aveva chiesto un incontro a Roma con il Guardasigilli per conoscere piu’ da vicino la realta’ carceraria dell’Italia e le politiche in materia. A renderlo noto e’ l’ufficio stampa del dicastero di via Arenula Nel corso di un lungo e cordiale colloquio, il ministro Alfano ha illustrato priorita’ e peculiarita’ dell’amministrazione penitenziaria italiana. Il Guardasigilli - conclude la nota dell’ufficio stampa - ha molto apprezzato il vivo interesse mostrato da uno Stato di antica tradizione democratica, come l’Irlanda, nei confronti dell’esperienza italiana nella complessa gestione del mondo carcerario. (AGI)

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Mah Ahern viene qua per parlare della gestione del mondo carcerario quando in irlanda lui lascia morire i ragazzi in galera come Kevin Murray e dopo tutto cio che è successo in settimana con Aidan???? Ma Ahern ci prenda in giro o è cretino puro?

Irlanda. Il prigioniero repubblicano Aidan Hulme riceve cure mediche

Irlanda. Il prigioniero repubblicano Aidan Hulme riceve cure mediche

di Tommaso Della Longa

Squilla il telefono. Iniziano ad arrivare sms. La notizia è confermata: il prigioniero repubblicano irlandese Aidan Hulme ha avuto le prime cure mediche dopo 237 giorni e soprattutto dopo che nelle ultime settimane si era temuto il peggio. Un piede che rischiava la cancrena, un corpo umano che non riusciva più a sostenere i tanti medicinali presi quotidianamente. E tutto questo avveniva nel silenzio di media irlandesi ed europei. Con la politica che rimaneva alla finestra facendo finta nulla, come se i militanti della causa repubblicana, quelli che ancora non si sono rassegnati a veder sventolare la Union jack a Belfast e Derry, fossero cittadini di serie inferiore.
Quando la scorsa settimana abbiamo conosciuto il portavoce italiano del movimento 32Csm (County Sovereignity Movement) Saoirse Harte, avevamo capito che la situazione era grave e che, soprattutto, nessuno nel mondo del politicamente corretto si sarebbe mosso. C’era bisogno di fare tutto il possibile per Aidan Hulme. Lo dovevamo a questo ragazzo, alla sua famiglia, ai suoi compagni di lotta, ma soprattutto al popolo e alla causa irlandese. Un interesse, una comunità di intenti che ha radici nel passato e che non poteva non trovare la nostra vicinanza anche oggi. Così, il nostro quotidiano si è messo subito a disposizione, facendo tutto il possibile: una pagina di intervista a Saoirse Harte e poi una campagna quotidiana in prima pagina in cui si ricordava da quanti giorni Aidan era senza cure e rischiava la vita nel carcere di Portlaoise, badate bene, non nel Regno unito, ma in Irlanda.
Quando abbiamo saputo della vittoria, abbiamo gioito. Quando abbiamo scoperto che il passo in avanti è stato fatto anche per la mobilitazione internazionale, abbiamo pensato che non servono grandi mezzi per incidere sulla realtà. Quando, infine, il movimento repubblicano ci ha ringraziato ufficialmente, l’emozione si è fatta largo.
Così, la mobilitazione umanitaria internazionale ha vinto. Aidan, che da mesi aspettava urgenti cure mediche, è stato finalmente visitato da uno specialista. E potrà anche essere portato in una struttura esterna al penitenziario.
L'agenzia di stampa Inedita, durante la scorsa settimana, aveva portato la notizia in Italia e aveva interpellato l'ambasciata irlandese. Martedì Inedita ha ricevuto una mail dall'ufficio stampa della rappresentanza in Italia di Dublino. “L'addetto stampa – spiegavano - ha ricevuto la risposta dall'Irish Prisoner Service, i quali riferiscono che il prigioniero in questione ha ricevuto tutte le cure mediche necessarie ed è anche stato portato in visita ad un ospedale esterno”. Dall'Irlanda, invece, confermavano le gravi condizioni di Aidan. Poi la buona notizia, giunta in Italia mercoledì sera.
“L'Irpwa (Irish republican prisoners welfare association) – si legge in un comunicato del portavoce del gruppo, Marian Price - accoglie con favore gli ultimi sviluppi della campagna per Aidan Hulme, ringraziando, a nome dei prigionieri di guerra, tutti quelli che si sono mobilitati. Il direttore del penitenziario di Portlaoise si è accordato con i prigionieri e ha dato il permesso ad Aidan di essere visitato anche all'esterno”. Inoltre è stato assicurato che “entro la fine del mese sarà pianificato e sviluppato un programma per dare le cure necessarie al prigioniero, permettendo così un controllo continuo della sua salute”. Così da oggi in poi il prigioniero irlandese Hulme dovrebbe ricevere (e il condizionale in un caso del genere è purtroppo d'obbligo) le necessarie cure mediche. Adesso però i due governi d'Irlanda dovrebbero imparare a non trattare come cittadini di “serie b” i militanti della causa repubblicana, per non dover mai più temere per la sorta di alcun prigioniero o peggio piangere ragazzi come Kevin Murray, lasciato a morire in carcere senza alcuna cura specialistica. Saoirse Harte, dall’Italia, ha poi voluto “ringraziare i media italiani che si sono mobilitati per la causa di Aidan Hulme, in particolare il quotidiano Rinascita e l'agenzia di stampa Inedita”.
Infine, abbiamo saputo che il giovane repubblicano detenuto è molto riconoscente per il supporto arrivato anche dall’Italia. Ora ci aspetta per conoscerci in una visita nel penitenziario. E noi non mancheremo.


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Irlanda. Il prigioniero repubblicano Aidan Hulme riceve cure

La mobilitazione umanitaria internazionale alla fine ha vinto. Il prigioniero repubblicano irlandese Aidan Hulme, detenuto nel carcere di Portlaoise, che da mesi aspettava urgenti cure mediche, è stato finalmente visitato da uno specialista. E potrà anche essere portato in una struttura esterna al penitenziario.
L'agenzia di stampa Inedita, durante la scorsa settimana, aveva portato la notizia in Italia, che poi era stata ripresa dal quotidiano nazionale Rinascita con un'intervista al portavoce italiano del movimento 32Csm (County sovereignity movement), Saoirse Harte. Inoltre era stata subito interpellata l'ambasciata irlandese. Martedì Inedita ha ricevuto una mail dall'ufficio stampa della rappresentanza in Italia di Dublino. “L'addetto stampa – spiegavano - ha ricevuto la risposta dall'Irish Prisoner Service, i quali riferiscono che il prigioniero in questione ha ricevuto tutte le cure mediche necessarie ed è anche stato portato in visita ad un ospedale esterno”. Dall'Irlanda, invece, confermavano le gravi condizioni di Aidan. Poi la buona notizia, giunta in Italia ieri sera.
“L'Irpwa (Irish republican prisoners welfare association) accoglie con favore gli ultimi sviluppi della campagna per Aidan Hulme. Il direttore del penitenziario di Portlaoise si è accordato con i prigionieri e ha dato il permesso ad Aidan di essere visitato anche all'esterno”. “Oggi (era ieri 15 ottobre 2008) il prigioniero è stato visitato ed è arrivata la conferma che la cancrena al piede non è presente e i sintomi sono risultato di una grave infezione”. Ora, gli accordi sono che il personale dell'ospedale visiterà Aidan per “pulire le superfici infettate del suo piede” e per “impedire un'ulteriore diffusione dell'infezione”. Inoltre è stato assicurato che entro la fine del mese sarà pianificato e sviluppato un programma per dare le cure necessarie al prigioniero, permettendo così un controllo continuo della sua salute.
“L'Irpwa a nome dei Pow (Prigionieri di guerra) vuole ringraziare le persone che si sono mosse per sostenere Aidan – ha detto la responsabile dell'associazione dei prigionieri repubblicani, Marian Price - Vorremmo estendere il ringraziamento a quelle organizzazioni repubblicane che hanno dato il proprio supporto per assicurare ad Aidan un intervento medico immediato. Aidan è molto riconoscente per tutto il supporto che ha ricevuto ed estende il suo apprezzamento sincero a tutti le persone che si sono mobilitate”.
Inedita ha inoltre raccolto le dichiarazioni di Saoirse Harte, il portavoce italiano del 32Csm, che ha voluto “ringraziare i media italiani che si sono mobilitati per la causa di Aidan Hulme, in particolare il quotidiano Rinascita e l'agenzia di stampa Inedita”.
Così da oggi in poi il prigioniero irlandese Hulme dovrebbe ricevere (e il condizionale in un caso del genere è purtroppo d'obbligo) le necessarie cure mediche. Adesso però i due governi d'Irlanda dovrebbero imparare a non trattare come cittadini di “serie b” i militanti della causa repubblicana, per non dover mai più temere per la sorta di alcun prigioniero o peggio piangere ragazzi come Kevin Murray, lasciato a morire in carcere senza alcuna cura specialistica

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ITALY32CSM STATEMENT ON AIDAN HULME

For Immediate Release

Italy 32CSM is disgusted at the continuing medical negligence that Aidan Hulme is being subjected to. We therefore ask everyone to please send a Get Well Soon Card to Aidan Hulme. This small gesture will take five minutes of your time and will show Aidan that people know of his situation and that our thoughts are with him. Please tell him that he has support and that efforts are being taken to highlight his plight all over the world and that people are working for him to get him the help he needs.
Please send all cards to
Aidan Hulme
Aidan Hulme
E3
Portlaoise Gaol
Portlaoise
County Laoise
Ireland

STATEMENT ENDS


Per il rilascio immediato

Italy 32CSM è disgustata dalla continua negligenza medica che sta subendo Aidan Hulme. Chiediamo pertanto a tutti di spedire un biglietto di auguri a Aidan per dirgli che il nostro pensiero è con lui e che stiamo lavorando per porre fine alla sua sofferenza. Questo piccolo gesto richiederà cinque minuti del vostro tempo e dimostrerà a Aidan che la gente è a conoscenza della sua situazione e che i nostri pensieri sono con lui. Ditegli che ha il vostro sostengo e che gli sforzi sono mirati a evidenziare in tutto il mondo la sua difficile situazione e che la gente sta lavorando affinchè lui gli ottenga l'aiuto che ha bisogno.
Indirizzate le cartoline a:
Aidan Hulme
E3
Portlaoise Gaol
Portlaoise
County Laoise
Ireland

FINE DI DICHIARAZIONE

IRPWA Statement

Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association
24/09/2008

Óglaigh na hÉireann Prisoners not involved in Portlaoise Row.

The IRPWA wish to state clearly that no Óglaigh na hÉireann prisoners (nor any interned on remand on membership charges) were involved in the recent row between INLA prisoners and prisoners associated with the Provisional Movement.
It is our understanding that prisoners associated with the INLA confronted prisoners associated with the Provisional movement over issues such as the Provisionals blocking INLA prisoners from coming on to a republican wing, throwing INLA prisoners of that wing for talking to other prisoners and trying to prevent the INLA prisoners from using certain visiting boxes, stating they were ‘IRA’ boxes.
Words were exchanged and by all accounts this led to blows being exchanged, we also believe that a small number of ex- Óglaigh na hÉireann prisoners sided with the Provisionals in this row.
Despite misinformation being peddled by a certain notorious Free State tabloid, it is clear that no Óglaigh na hÉireann prisoners were involved in this incident The E3 prisoners have worked hard to create a more tolerable environment for all POW’s incarcerated in Portlaoise and will continue to do so.

Republican POW’s will not be criminalised

Republican POW’s will not be criminalised

The IRPWA are becoming increasingly concerned at recent events in Portlaoise gaol whereby attempts have been made by some within the Free State establishment to cause unnecessary friction between POW’s and the prison administration.

On Friday 25th July, shortly after lock up at 8pm seven members of the prison staff entered the cell of Derry republican Gary Donnelly and told him that they had been contacted by the gardai at 7.30pm and informed that he had a mobile phone and that they had been told to search the cell and strip search Gary. In turn the prison staff were told that they could search the cell but that he would be refusing to be strip searched. The prison staff relayed this message to the assistant governor who became highly agitated roaring through the radio to strip search Gary.

Gary Donnelly again refused and asked for his officer commanding who was duly sent for and arrived at Gary’s cell. The OC again informed the prison staff that they could search the cell but that as they had a metal detector they had no need to strip search Gary and that under no circumstances would it be tolerated. The prison staff searched the cell and needless to say found nothing.

The OC also demanded to see the assistant governor to whom he insisted that Republican POW’s and political prisoners would not be criminalised nor victimised. He also demanded a meeting with the Governor for the following day.

On Saturday 26th the Officer Commanding Republican POW’s on E3 and his adjutant met with the Governor and reiterated their position and also informed him that the Republican prisoners would be refusing to be locked up that day. The OC insisted that as political prisoners the men under his command would reuse to be treated like common criminals and told him if it was criminals he was looking for to search E1 where they were housed. The Republican prisoners then refused orders from the prison administration to lock up for head counts and stayed out of their cells until 9.30 that night.

The IRPWA are convinced that this political directive from the Free State elite is aimed at creating conflict within the prison by criminalising and victimising Republicans. It is undoubtedly intended to interrupt the organisation and smooth running of E3 wing that has no doubt caused concern among some. We are also extremely concerned at the attempts to victimise and target Gary Donnelly. In recent weeks the media have been attempting to link Gary to various things with which he has no connection whatsoever. The IRPWA also fear that as Gary is effectively being interned on a charge with no evidence that an attempt may be made to plant a mobile phone in his cell which is a criminal offence thereby bolstering their capability to hold him.

The IRPWA also are concerned at the increased incidents of petty harassment of visitors to the prison by prison staff, particularly female visitors. On a number of occasions females visitors have told of whistling and offensive remarks from both criminal prisoners and staff. In another incident visitors from Cork and Derry were refused entry at the front desk for not having photo ID, when a complaint was made to the governor he replied “ The fella on the desk must have been in bad form” clearly this is unacceptable.

The IRA POW’s and other political prisoners housed on E3 have worked hard to build a tolerable regime on that wing as befits their political status and they will not allow faceless figures from the Free State establishment, no doubt at the behest of their British allies, to create an atmosphere of conflict, friction and criminalisation. The IRPWA will support the prisoners in whatever action the deem necessary to undertake to protect themselves and their status.

At a well attended Protest over 2000 leaflets highlighting the internment of four Derry republican were handed out to the public. The protest attracted interest from passing tourist and the media was present. The 32 County Sovereignty Movement is calling for the release of four Derry republicans and other republican activists from across the 32 counties who remain interned by remand in Portlaoise Prison in the Free State. The men were arrested at a border filling station in March and have been held on remand ever since on IRA membership charges. Since then the Gardai has failed to produce any evidence, asking the court of three occasions for more time to produce the evidence. Surly in a free fair democratic state the evidence is produced to the PPS shortly after the person is charged. Gardai have charged, and interned these men and then sought to obtain the evidence, scraping the barrel for anything they can get their hands on in an obvious attempt to disrupt republicanism in Derry City. The Free State having been pressurized by the British are holding these men because of their republican position and their resistance to British Parliamentary activity in Ireland and the Mi5 controlled RUC/PSNI. The four men have been offered bail but at as a surety they have been asked to produce 90,000 Euro cash for the four of them. There have been cases in the past were republicans have lost their bail due to Gardai harassment and these working class men do not have 90,000 euro to put to risk. The Free State establishment now obtains the most draconian laws in Western Europe where men like Gary Donnelly, Mickey Gallagher, Paddy Mc Daid and Marty O’ Neill have been held for five months without any evidence being forwarded to the PPS. In the past few months establishment politicians in the North have indicated their support for these practices. Moreover, former republicans have openly called for such practices to be brought into the occupied six counties to quell the recent upsurge of republican activity.This is a human rights issue and we would ask for your support for these four men and their families and the countless other men from across the island who are being interned by remand in the 26 county state.

Republican POW's protest at denial of Temporary Release

IRPWA: Republican POW's protest at denial of Temporary Release
Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association
31/05/2008

Republican POW’s protest at denial of Temporary Release.

On Friday 30th May, Republican prisoners on E3 wing, Portlaoise Gaol refused to lock up for a period of an hour in protest at the denial of the Minister of Justice to grant Temporary Release to two prisoners to attend their children’s first holy communion. The POW’s were joined in the protest by prisoners allegedly aligned to the Irish National Liberation Army on E4. The prisoners, Justin McCarthy from Dundalk and Shane Hickey from Cork, were denied TR without an explanation from the Ministry of Justice, this despite the fact that other prisoners, with different perceived affiliations have been granted TR for the same reasons recently.
The prisoners and the IRPWA are convinced that this denial of TR is based upon the perceived affiliations of the prisoners involved and is directly linked to attacks by the IRA in the six counties.
The Officer Commanding of E3 made it clear to the governor of Portlaoise that this was a protest against Dermot Ahern and not against the prison which he accepted.
The IRPWA condemn the Minister of Justice for his pathetic and petty minded attempts to punish Republican POW’s and their families and we salute the IRA and INLA prisoners for the principled stance they have taken in order to highlight this injustice.

Orla Brady interview on Radio Free Eireann

Orla Brady recently gave an interview on Radio Free Eireann regarding the internment on remand of her partner Gary Donnelly together with his comrades in Portlaoise gaol.She also takes us through the raiding of her house by British crown forces whilst her partner was interned.

New IRPWA Mural

The Belfast cumannn of the 32 CSM this week unveiled a new mural on the international wall at the bottom of the Falls Road. The aim of the mural is to highlight the the ongoing plight of Irish republican prisoners being held in British and 26 county jails on trumpt up IRA membership charges.


END INTERNMENT BY REMAND.

Republicans are still being interned on remand

Republicans are still being interned on remand

To be a republican today with a belief in ending British rule in the six counties and restoring national sovereignty and re-unification is a crime in the eyes of the 26-county administration. To campaign politically in pursuit of these aims is so great a crime that you could find yourself effectively interned and spending a considerable number of years in prison as a result.


At present they are a substantial number of people in prison on a ‘membership’ charge with no evidence to substantiate this but the opinion of a garda. This is nothing new for republicans for whom injustice is no stranger. Internment aimed at Republicans has been a regular occurrence throughout the history of the 26 county state. In the six counties, the British have not been as blatant to intern people openly, at present, for reasons of political expediency. Instead they have chosen the option of planting falsified evidence and attempted frame ups, fortunately, they have been exposed in quite a number of cases.


However, it seems that the British are preparing to copy the tactics of their Free State allies and evidence of an ever increasing campaign of criminalisation is the forbear to the introduction of the draconian measures already employed in the 26 counties.


That such measures are used by our enemies is no surprise, the Republican cause is used as a jackboot of British imperialism and their Free State lackeys. Unjust and repressive measures like these are necessary to keep such corrupt and undemocratic institutions like the Free State and the six county state-let in existence. Perhaps the most hypocritical aspect of this is that those who deploy these repressive measures masquerade as ‘republicans’ and every Easter are quick to seen paying homage to Pearse, Connolly and the martyrs of Easter week.


Martin McGuinness once proclaimed in a Free State court room that he was a member of the Derry Brigade and “very, very proud of it” and received a six-month jail sentence. At present there are Republicans who are serving six years for membership despite there being no evidence.


On Easter Sunday Martin McGuinness joined Bertie Ahern in Dublin to observe a free state military parade in his capacity as a Crown minister, no doubt to bolster the relationship between the Crown and the Free State. This should be an ominous warning to Republicans in the occupied territory that McGuinness and the rest of the British executive is ready to follow Bertie’s lead and introduce internment by remand. As McGuinness stood with Bertie watching the parade of the perpetrators of Ballyseedy and those responsible for the execution of Republicans, the Crown force which he gives allegiances to (RUC/PSNI) was in the streets of the Creggan harassing Republicans and intimidating nationalist children.


Nevertheless, Republicans should take heart that we still hold true to the ideals and aspirations of the Proclamation.


We have not besmirched the name of republicanism by such acts as allowing imperialist murderers to use our airports while on their way to slaughter innocent people, we have not dishonoured republicanism by being mired in corruption and sleaze, we’ve not tried to desecrate our national heritage by running a motorway thorough the Hill of Tara and by not selling our resources to greedy capitalist companies such as Shell. Yes, today in Ireland those in power see republicanism as a crime yet the sectarian drug dealing UDA are received by the President like old friends and Martin McGuinness rubs shoulders in Washington with war criminals like George Bush.


Gary Donnelly


Paddy McDaid


Mickey Gallagher


Marty O’Neill


E3 Portlaoise.

Derry republican speaks out

STATEMENT 4/APRIL/2008

32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT, DERRY CITY

Firstly I would like to wish the four Derry men who are being interned in Portlaoise Gaol all the best of luck.

In a recent visit to Maghaberry Prison to see a republican prisoner my son was searched four times on entry, photographed five times and had his fingerprints taken before being able to see his friend. A sniffer dog was also called in and if this animal sits down beside you, your visit is terminated. These draconian practices only exist for republican visits.

Republican POWs are not criminals, but they are in the eyes of the occupation. Political status was signed away in the terms of the Good Friday agreement in 1998. This is not what Bobby Sands and his nine brave comrades died for. The Good Friday agreement has criminalized republicanism; recently in Derry City men arrested under the ‘terrorism’ act were shown a Bobby Sands book wrapped up in an evidence bag. By attempting to criminalize so called ‘dissidents’ Britain has criminated the entire republican family including the provisional grassroots. It recently became evident to me that the current Sinn Fein Strategy had been grossly underpinned by the Brits. Britain will never tolerate republicanism however it will tolerate those who subvert to its position.

After being a member of Sinn Fein my entire adult life, I decided to leave the party. It was not an easy decision for me to make. However, I felt that the provisional leadership was leading us up the wrong path. Irish republican history is littered with repealist come reformists. I spoke at the recent special Ard Fheis on policing last year, and from that day to this Sinn Fein is incapable of giving me an example of the accountability the grassroots had been promised. In recent weeks the RUC/PSNI have beaten the children of Creggan black and blue, humiliated children as young as eight by photographing them while noting their names to the outrage of their parents. The people of Derry had given the PSNI a chance and they have failed to live up to its promise of change. Policing boards have been exposed as a cosmetic propaganda exercise aimed at hoodwinking republicans into supporting the RUC. If only the RUC/PSNI tackled the current drug scourge that is destroying my Shantallow homeland with the same vigor and determination as they do with dignified republican commemorations’ then maybe they could gain a little trust. Drug dealing is a civic police issue however the RUC/PSNI only react to political issues related to republicanism.

Since leaving Sinn Fein with over 40 years behind me, I have recently joined the 32 County Sovereignty Movement and they have given me a very warm welcome. I would urge all disillusioned Shantallow republicans to contact me for advice; I can confirm that a new Cumann will be established in the greater Shantallow area very soon, we will be dedicated to upholding the republic while tackling anti social behavior and the drug scourge head on.

Seamus Breslin. Derry 32csm

STATEMENT ENDS

Oration by Francie Mackey

It is indeed a great honour and privilege to be invited here today, in Derry, to give the oration at this years commemoration of the 92nd anniversary of the Easter Rising.

This city and county has a long and proud history in the struggle for Irish Independence, a struggle to end British Parliamentary Activity in Ireland.

Today you the people of Derry are not only upholding the ideals of the leaders of 1916, you are remembering them with the pride and honour they deserve.

When the Proclamation was written it was done so with vision and spelt out clearly the legality of the Provisional Government.

The legality of that position in 1916 is as relevant to the Irish people today as it was then because Ireland today remains under British occupation.

The British Home Rule preference of that era remains the preferred choice of the present day British Government.

Unfortunately and sadly, former comrades have joined the ranks of the Home Rulers and have moved to the British agenda with the continuance of British Rule in Ireland and are now actively administering that rule.

This Easter those same people will besmirch the name republican as they use and abuse the proud name to bolster their own ego’s and to bolster their failed agenda.

In the 26 counties the people gave PSF their answer at the last election, when they decided there wasn’t room for two Fianna Fail’s.

PSF and Fianna Fail are two sides of the same coin and today both are competing for a share of the same things.

PSF have failed their own people and their Southern project is dead in the water. At their Ard Fheis it was acknowledged their Northern leadership failed the South because of their partitionist mindset.

I do not see the Southern project being resurrected as their policies are now in conflict between North and South and between the socialist left and the conservative right.

This begs the question, would James Connolly a signatory of the Proclamation have reached this position?

Would Padraig Pearse have entered negotiations that refused to address the core cause of conflict and accept the perpetuation of British Rule and continue to facilitate it with the public decommissioning of arms, end the struggle without any republican gains and criminalize Irish men and Irish women who continue to oppose British Rule in Ireland, who continue to oppose the partition of our country and who oppose the continuation of sectarian strife in the occupied six counties.

Today just like 92 years ago there is the ongoing effort to criminalize the republican position, criminalize and vilify us for putting forward the legality of our position and for stating clearly
just as Pearse did that Ireland unfree will never be at peace.

History has taught us there will always be opposition to the occupation of any part of the Irish Nation.

The criminalization I refer to takes many forms with vilification of individuals, the intimidation of our members and brutal beatings resulting in serious injury by the PSNI.

The PSNI in conjunction with MI5 are actively targeting individuals in a pattern just as they done under their former name the RUC and we believe they are deliberately setting up people for murder.

In the past weeks we are aware of suspicious activity across the 6 Counties emanating from the British military presence and we are certain that circumstances prevented the murder of at least one individual.

In the days and weeks ahead we appeal to the republican base in the occupied territory to be vigilant in the face of this serious threat and to report all suspicious activity to the 32 CSM, no matter how insignificant you think it is. It could save some one’s life.

Amazingly the quislings in Dublin and Stormont have not uttered a word of condemnation, instead their public pronouncements are that of continuing such practices and by giving their support to an unacceptable police force they are supporting such practices and supporting British political policing in Ireland.

Dublin have moved one step further in the criminalization process and the abuse of civil rights with the arrest of 4 men from this city and placed a charge without any evidence. Their powers to intern anyone on the advice of a Garda Superintendent demonstrates the fragility of their position. They feel the need to intern anyone who opposes British Rule in Ireland and have these abuses of human rights in place to remove any advancement to uphold Irish National Sovereignty.

Those who claim the PSNI are not involved in political policing are liars and are involved in the cover up to conceal the extent of their involvement in carrying out British practices in the occupied 6 Counties.

The Gardai have joined this bunch with political policing and there is little difference between their activities because their agenda is to crush any opposition and to facilitate the British Agenda under the guise of peace.

This very month the PSF leader in Leinster House, in response to Fine Gael criticism of the continued existence of the PIRA Army council, stated that the core reason for its existence was to act as a bulwark against the growing influence of so called dissident republicanism particularly in the border area. It now seems that a new slogan is required for them, ‘With an MI5 agent in one hand and a private militia in the other we’ll secure British rule in Ireland.’

We in the 32 CSM could never and will not accept such practices, that fails the Irish people, practices that fail to uphold the sovereignty of the Irish people and practices that allows a foreign government to maintain their illegal presence through the use of force, intimidation, threat and murder.

In our discussion document Dismantling Partition we recognize the strengths and weakness’ of the republican position following the damage that it has withstood when former leaders accepted the British agenda in the GFA. We are confident that the position we adopted prior to the GFA, with our challenge lodged in the UN, secured the basic tenet of the republican position and by so doing we have set out a course to pursue that challenge.

We recognize in the present climate we cannot do it alone and we recognize that by uniting the separatist position across the republican base republicanism will realign itself to the position of the 1916 leaders.

In doing so we are confident that together republicans will make a difference in upholding the Proclamation and in so doing uphold the right of the Irish people to National Self-determination. In other words uphold the Sovereignty of the Irish Nation.

The Republican Unity Initiative has the capabilities to promote debate, discussion and formulate republican strategy based on democratic principles, agreement and decision.

Republicanism divided into factions only assists those who are content to ignore us.

They refuse to challenge our analysis, our position leaves them uncomfortable so they have to retreat to ignore us in the hope we will go away.

That is not going to happen, we in the 32CSM know that with debate and understanding across the republican base, republicans will come together just as they done in 1916 and that with such unity the republican position cannot be ignored.

Who would have thought that as we prepare for the centenary of the1916 rising in 8 years time that we would be back at the same position as they were in the coming together of the differing organizations to present the true challenge based on truth and justice.

In 1916 their leaders came together to thwart the push for Home Rule and by doing so they lit the torch of freedom.

Their analysis in the Proclamation was correct.

They were vilified by the British and by the Home Rulers and because they set out with the right analysis, their position was ratified by the Irish people two short years later.

The people of Ireland elected them based on that analysis and they formed the first Dail Eireann. The Brits refused to accept the democratic will of the Irish people and executed our national
government because it was an Irish agenda and like today they refused to accept anything outside their own agenda.

Does that sound familiar in to day’s terms.

Over the past year republicans have come together with their first tentative steps in discussion and debate and have united with a number of projects such as the Wolfe Tone commemoration, the anti- British policing debate and in the Truth and Lies debate remembering the victims of Bloody Sunday in Derry.

We continue to extend the hand of friendship to all republican organizations and individuals to come together in debate and discussion so that the real challenge based on firm analysis can be pursued to end British parliamentary activity in Ireland.

That is what the men and women of 1916 gave their lives for and that is the only solution to end conflict and strife in Ireland.

As the realignment of the Home Rulers begins to crack and divide, republicans should be seeking to unite the republican position to promote the challenge and capitalize on the flaws of our opponent’s position.

Let us move forward from today with more tiny steps on the road to unity so that we can grow and look to 2016 with a shared confidence for the 100th Anniversary of a significant historic event.

An event that has left us in the position we find ourselves today by successive intransigent British Governments.

We have a serious and sincere challenge, let us develop it with a unified republican position.

Go Raibh Maith Agat.

32 County Sovereignty Movement Cork Commemoration

Oration by Marian Price

It is indeed a great honour and privilege to be invited here today, to the rebel county, to give the oration at this years commemoration of the 92nd anniversary of the Easter Rising.

This city and county has a long and proud history in the struggle for Irish Independence, a struggle to end British Parliamentary Activity in Ireland.

Today you the people of Cork are not only upholding the ideals of the leaders of 1916, you are remembering them with the pride and honour they deserve.

When the Proclamation was written it was done so with vision and spelt out clearly the legality of the Provisional Government.

The legality of that position in 1916 is as relevant to the Irish people today as it was then because Ireland today remains under British occupation.

The British Home Rule preference of that era remains the preferred choice of the present day British Government.

Unfortunately and sadly, former comrades have joined the ranks of the Home Rulers and have moved to the British agenda with the continuance of British Rule in Ireland and are now actively administering that rule.

Today those same people will besmirch the name republican as they use and abuse the proud name republican to bolster their own ego’s and to bolster their failed agenda.

Here in the 26 counties the people gave PSF their answer at the last election, when they decided there wasn’t room for two Fianna Fail’s.

PSF and Fianna Fail are two sides of the same coin and today both are competing for a share of the same things.

PSF have failed their own people and their Southern project is dead in the water. At their Ard Fheis it was acknowledged their Northern leadership failed the South because of their partitionist mindset.

I do not see the Southern project being resurrected as their policies are now in conflict between North and South and between the socialist left and the conservative right.

This begs the question, would James Connolly a signatory of the Proclamation have reached this position?

Would Padraig Pearse have entered negotiations that refused to address the core cause of conflict and accept the perpetuation of British Rule and continue to facilitate it with the public decommissioning of arms, end the struggle without any republican gains and criminalize Irish men and Irish women who continue to oppose British Rule in Ireland, who continue to oppose the partition of our country and who oppose the continuation of sectarian strife in the occupied six counties.

Today just like 92 years ago there is the ongoing effort to criminalize the republican position, criminalize and vilify us for putting forward the legality of our position and for stating clearly just as Pearse did that Ireland unfree will never be at peace.

History has taught us there will always be opposition to the occupation of any part of the Irish Nation.

The criminalization I refer to takes many forms with vilification of individuals, the intimidation of our members and brutal beatings resulting in serious injury by the PSNI.

The PSNI in conjunction with MI5 are actively targeting individuals in a pattern just as they done under their former name the RUC and we believe they are deliberately setting up people for murder.

In the past weeks we are aware of suspicious activity across the 6 Counties emanating from the British military presence and we are certain that circumstances prevented the murder of at least one individual.

In the days and weeks ahead we appeal to the republican base in the occupied territory to be vigilant in the face of this serious threat and to report all suspicious activity to the 32 CSM, no matter how insignificant you think it is. It could save some one’s life.

Amazingly the quislings in Dublin and Stormont have not uttered a word of condemnation, instead their public pronouncements are that of continuing such practices and by giving their support to an unacceptable police force they are supporting such practices and supporting British political policing in Ireland.

Those who claim the PSNI are not involved in political policing are liars and are involved in the cover up to conceal the extent of their involvement in carrying out British practices in the occupied 6 Counties.

This very month the PSF leader in Leinster House, in response to Fine Gael criticism of the continued existence of the PIRA Army council, stated that the core reason for its existence was to act as a bulwark against the growing influence of so called dissident republicanism particularly in the border area. It now seems that a new slogan is required for them, ‘With an MI5 agent in one hand and a private militia in the other we’ll secure British rule in Ireland.’

We in the 32 CSM could never and will not accept such practices, that fails the Irish people, practices that fail to uphold the sovereignty of the Irish people and practices that allows a foreign government to maintain their illegal presence through the use of force, intimidation, threat and murder.

In our discussion document Dismantling Partition we recognize the strengths and weakness’ of the republican position following the damage that it has withstood when former leaders accepted the British agenda in the GFA. We are confident that the position we adopted prior to the GFA, with our challenge lodged in the UN, secured the basic tenet of the republican position and by so doing we have set out a course to pursue that challenge.

We recognize in the present climate we cannot do it alone and we recognize that by uniting the separatist position across the republican base republicanism will realign itself to the position of the 1916 leaders.

In doing so we are confident that together republicans will make a difference in upholding the Proclamation and in so doing uphold the right of the Irish people to National Self-determination. In other words uphold the Sovereignty of the Irish Nation.

The Republican Unity Initiative has the capabilities to promote debate, discussion and formulate republican strategy based on democratic principles, agreement and decision.

Republicanism divided into factions only assists those who are content to ignore us.

They refuse to challenge our analysis, our position leaves them uncomfortable so they have to retreat to ignore us in the hope we will go away.

That is not going to happen, we in the 32CSM know that with debate and understanding across the republican base, republicans will come together just as they done in 1916 and that with such unity the republican position cannot be ignored.

Who would have thought that as we prepare for the centenary of the1916 rising in 8 years time that we would be back at the same position as they were in the coming together of the differing organizations to present the true challenge based on truth and justice.

In 1916 their leaders came together to thwart the push for Home Rule and by doing so they lit the torch of freedom.

Their analysis in the Proclamation was correct.

They were vilified by the British and by the Home Rulers and because they set out with the right analysis, their position was ratified by the Irish people two short years later.

The people of Ireland elected them based on that analysis and they formed the first Dail Eireann. The Brits refused to accept the democratic will of the Irish people and executed our national government because it was an Irish agenda and like today they refused to accept anything outside their own agenda.

Does that sound familiar in to day’s terms.

Over the past year republicans have come together with their first tentative steps in discussion and debate and have united with a number of projects such as the Wolfe Tone commemoration, the anti- British policing debate and in the Truth and Lies debate remembering the victims of Bloody Sunday in Derry.

We continue to extend the hand of friendship to all republican organizations and individuals to come together in debate and discussion so that the real challenge based on firm analysis can be pursued to end British parliamentary activity in Ireland.

That is what the men and women of 1916 gave their lives for and that is the only solution to end conflict and strife in Ireland.

As the realignment of the Home Rulers begins to crack and divide, republicans should be seeking to unite the republican position to promote the challenge and capitalize on the flaws of our opponent’s position.

Let us move forward from today with more tiny steps on the road to unity so that we can grow and look to 2016 with a shared confidence for the 100th Anniversary of a significant historic event.

An event that has left us in the position we find ourselves today by successive intransigent British Governments.

We have a serious and sincere challenge, let us develop it with a unified republican position.

Go Raibh Maith Agat.

Maltreatment of POWs Will Not Be Tolerated

PRESS RELEASE: 32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT 26/03/2008 32 CSM warn ill treatment of republican POW's will not be tolerated. The 32 County Sovereignty Movement, the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association and the wider republican family will not tolerate any further attacks on republican prisoners such as that carried out by the prison riot squad against republican remand prisoner Anton Craig. Anton, 23 from the Short Strand area of Belfast was returning from the canteen with his food when he was told to remove an Easter Lilly which the prison officer told him was a 'sectarian emblem'. As a republican Anton obviously refused and was then informed that he was on a charge and would face punishment for refusing an order. Anton proceeded to his cell where he staged a token protest by wrecking up certain items such as table, chairs and other furniture. At around 4.30-5.00 pm, eight members of the prison's riot squad entered Anton's cell and seriously assaulted him leaving him black and blue. They rammed his face into the cell floor asking him who ordered him to protest and calling him 'nothing but a provie bastard'. The riot squad also trashed the sink, toilet and electrics in his cell. As a consequence of the actions of the prison staff, Anton Craig has been sitting in a cell with out electric, washing facilities and a toilet that will not flush since Easter Sunday, there is nothing in his cell but a bed. A number of other prisoners were charged with wearing lilies and were charged, adjudicated on and sent to the punishment block the next day for 48 hours, all are back on the republican wing whereas Anton has yet to be adjudicated on and is facing up to seven days solitary confinement on top of the punishment he is already enduring. The republican movement urge all republicans to resist this criminalisation and to support republican prisoners in their battle for political status. The attitude of the prison staff against republicans is nothing but the attitude of the British to Irish republican separatists in microcosm. The republican base can no longer and will no longer endure attacks on republicanism either within the prisons or outside their walls.

Statement From Portlaoise POW's

This year marks the 7th anniversary of the death of volunteer Kevin Murray due to the neglect of the Free State prison service and yet again Republican POW's are suffereing under this regime. At this moment Aidan Hulme is lying in a cell in Portlaoise in severe pain due to a motor accident that occured proior to his incarceration by British forces over six years ago.
Since his return home over a year ago he has still not recieved the surgical attention he requires in order to relieve his pain and aid his mobility. His hope in returning to Ireland was that his fellow country men would help in his plight, but all he has recieved is a deaf ear and a daily dose of 23 tablets and a morphine patch.
The more Aidan complains the more the authorities attempt to silence him with more and more medication when all that is required is a simple operation.
Republican prisoners have experienced this before, Kevin Murray made numerous complaints to the medical staff in the prison and was given glasses for 'bad eyesight' when in actual fact he had a brain tumour.
Aidan was offered an amputation in England despite the fact that a relatively simple operation would solve his problem. Recently he needed to go to hospital but was forced to wait a day and a half owing to the fact that he is a political prisoner whereas criminals have much better access than republicans.
The state of medical attention is sub standard with delays of days to see a doctor and months to see a dentist. This situation is intolerable and we will not wait for the death of another comrade before we act.

Republican POW's
E3 Wing
Portlaoise.


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MEDICAL NEGLECT AT PORTLAOISE PRISON
12 February 2008

Irish Freedom Committee NewsList
http://www.irishfreedomcommittee. net

The shameful record of medical neglect to Irish Republican political prisoners continues at Ireland's Portlaoise Prison!!

Aidan Hulme, long in grave pain from a poorly treated injury sustained before he was first interned in a British prison over 6 years ago; must have immediate and specialist care for his worsening physical condition. Send an email and letter today to the addresses below to let the Irish Government know you will not tolerate this barbarian treatment of an Irish citizen in an Irish jail!

Please send an email or letter today to the Irish government bodies listed below. Sample letter enclosed or use your own text.

Items Below:

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1. STATEMENT FROM PORTLAOISE P.O.W.S
2. HISTORY OF MEDICAL NEGLECT TO P.O.W.S
3. CONTACT IRISH GOV'T – SAMPLE LETTER
4. BACKGROUND – MORE INFORMATION on AIDAN HULME

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1. STATEMENT FROM PORTLAOISE POW'S, E3

This year marks the 7th anniversary of the death of volunteer Kevin Murray due to the neglect of the Free State prison service and yet again Republican POW's are suffering under this regime. At this moment Aidan Hulme is lying in a cell in Portlaoise in severe pain due to a motor
accident that occurred prior to his incarceration by British forces over six years ago.

Since his return home over a year ago he has still not received the surgical attention he requires in order to relieve his pain and aid his mobility. His hope in returning to Ireland was that his fellow country men would help in his plight, but all he has received is a deaf ear and a daily dose of 23 tablets and a morphine patch.

The more Aidan complains the more the authorities attempt to silence him with more and more medication when all that is required is a simple operation.

Republican prisoners have experienced this before, Kevin Murray made numerous complaints to the medical staff in the prison and was given glasses for 'bad eyesight' when in actual fact he had a brain tumour.

Aidan was offered an amputation in England despite the fact that a relatively simple operation would solve his problem. Recently he needed to go to hospital but was forced to wait a day and a half owing to the fact that he is a political prisoner whereas criminals have much better
access than republicans.

The state of medical attention is sub standard with delays of days to see a doctor and months to see a dentist. This situation is intolerable and we will not wait for the death of another comrade before we act.

Republican POW's
E3 Wing
Portlaoise.

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2. WHY WAS KEVIN MURRAY ALLOWED TO DIE?

http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/POWs/kmurray.htm


Remember Vol. Kevin Murray -- died as a direct result of total medical neglect for a massive brain tumor in 2001. Not again!!

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3. SAMPLE LETTER – PLEASE CONTACT
Department of Justice
Brian Lenihan
Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
94 St. Stephen's Green
Dublin 2
Phone: + 353 1 602-8202
Email: info@justice.ie

Irish Prison Service
IDA Business Park, Ballinalee Road, Longford, Co. Longford
Tel: +353 43 35100
Fax: +353 43 35101
Email: info@irishprisons.ie

Governor Mr. T.J. Walsh
Portlaoise Prison
Dublin Road,
Portlaoise, Co. Laois.
Tel: 0502 21318
Fax: 0502 20997
Email: info@irishprisons.ie

To whom it may concern,

I am writing with grave concerns for the health and welfare of Aidan Hulme, a Republican political prisoner at Portlaoise Prison.

Since being repatriated to Portlaoise in 2006, Aidan has continued to suffer great pain from injuries sustained over six years ago before being interned in Britain. It was his great hope, as mine, that his repatriation to Ireland would finally result in the proper medical care he so badly needs.

Aidan Hulme desperately needs surgery, not more pills. Currently he is taking 23 tablets for pain per day. He has made numerous complaints and requests for surgical attention to the Portlaoise prison governor and to the medical officer, but has only received more pain pills in response.

You will recall, as I do, the 2001 death of another Republican prisoner, Kevin Murray, who had also made numerous complaints and requests for medical attention. Like Aidan, all that Kevin Murray received from Portlaoise doctors were tablets. When the massive brain tumor was
finally discovered, it was far too late to operate, and Kevin was released to hospice to die.

Please allow Aidan Hulme the simple operation that he requires. Under international Human Rights laws including the Geneva Convention for the Treatment of Prisoners of War; the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Aidan Hulme is entitled to the same comforts of any Irish citizen while in your care.

Please advise. The favor of a response is requested.

Thank you,

NAME
ADDRESS
- The Irish Freedom Committee

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4. MORE INFORMATION on AIDAN HULME
http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/POWs/ Aidan_Robert_ Hulme_REPATRIATE D\.htm



Vi chiedo tutti di mandare un mail con la lettera sopra per attirare piu attenzione possibile su Aiden e il modo in qual'è costretto a 'vivere'