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.

http://thefivedemands.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/50-i-prigionieri-repubblicani-ancora-in-carcere/

Internment Commemoration

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.

Dirty Tricks Campaign in Derry City

32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT
Press Release
30/05/2008

Anti-republican elements seek to discredit Sovereignty Movement

It has come to the attention of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement in Derry city that a number of leaflets have been circulated in the area warning individuals, that the leaflet claims are drug dealers, that the 32CSM will take action against them. These leaflets are purporting to come from the 32 County Sovereignty Movement which is clearly not the case. Members of the 32CSM in the city believe that there is a dirty tricks element to this episode. The leaflet in question not only gets the name of the movement wrong but is littered with quite deliberate spelling mistakes and basic grammatical errors, this is clearly pre-empting a denial by ourselves, the sinister elements involved in distributing these leaflets can then claim that it is the work of an idiot with a grudge.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement believe that this dirty tricks campaign is directly aimed at an initiative put forward by our activists in Derry to name and shame drug dealers and to pickets homes of known drug dealers and anti social elements if necessary. The leaflet finishes with a bizarre claim that should the recipient of this leaflet fail to mend their ways, then this case will be passed on to the 32CSM’s ‘Army Council’ in the city.

The 32CSM are convinced this is a deliberate attempt to undermine the republican separatist movement and to scupper any community initiatives we have planned. We are confident that the republican community will see through this pathetic attempt by elements loyal to Stormont to bring our movement into disrepute and we would urge anyone who receives leaflets or literature that they are not sure about to contact the 32 County Sovereignty Movement immediately.

Statement ends.

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.

Former Prominent Member of Derry Sinn Fein Joins 32CSM

STATEMENT 03/APRIL/2008

32 COUNTY SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT DERRY CITY

The 32CSM welcomes a former prominent member of Derry Sinn Fein to our ranks, Seamus Breslin, who has been a republican all his adult life and is well known for his dedicated community work in the Shantallow area. Sheamus spoke at the recent special Ard Fheis on policing in Dublin.
After over 40 years in the Provisional Movement Seamus became disillusioned with the current SF strategy and he believes that the leadership is leading the grassroots up the wrong path. Seamus is dedicating himself to fighting anti social behaviour, drug dealing and establishing a 32csm Cumann in the greater Shantallow area, he has also urged other true republicans to join him.

Derry 32csm Secretary

Ciaran Boyle.

STATEMENT ENDS

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

Andy Martin Interview

The following is an interview with the 32 County Sovereignty Movements Director of Publicity Andy Martin. In it he discusses the recent Easter commemoration in Derry City, the situation in the prisons and the Derry 4.

The video also shows photographs of our Easter commemoration on Easter Monday.

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.