UncategorizedJune 28, 2006 3:22 pm

Republican Sinn Féin Oppose British Naval Visit to Dublin

 Republican Sinn Féin Oppose British Naval Visit to Dublin

Republican Sinn Féin will be holding a protest on Thursday June 29, from 7pm at the Famine Memorial in the Financial Centre in Dublin’s Docklands at the visit of the British naval vessel Ocean.

We view such visits as part of the normalisation of British rule in Ireland. As we have pointed out in the past, visits by British heads of State, her representatives or the British military will never be welcome in Ireland as long as Britain claims jurisdiction in any part of the country. This claim, enforced by military might, ensures that whilst it is maintained, relations between the two countries cannot be normal.

Republican Sinn Féin members will be present to press home the point that the presence of a British naval vessel is not welcome in Dublin as long as part of the country remains under British occupation.

Just as we oppose the use of Irish airspace and landing facilities at Shannon by US torture and war planes, we also oppose Britains role in the illegal occupation of Iraq.

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Uncategorized 3:19 pm

POLITICAL STATUS IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE

POLITICAL STATUS IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE

IN A statement on June 28 Republican Sinn Féin, Belfast said that in 2006 Irish Republicans were still incarcerated for their political beliefs.

The statement continued: In 1981 ten brave men died for the fight for political status. Twenty-five years later the fight still goes on. Today Republican prisoners have once again found it necessary to resort to prison protest.

We urge all Republicans to support the prisoners in their struggle to gain back the right to be treated as POWs. These men are prisoners of war and deserve to be treated as such.

1981: They were political prisoners then
2006: They are political prisoners now.

Help end the prison struggle; support the Republican POWs. Political status is a right not a privilege.

We like to call on all ex-prisoners’ group to come out and show their support for all political prisoners who are on protest in Maghaberry Concentration Camp. We ask them to join in white-line pickets and any other protest organised by the Republican Prisoners Action Group and Republican Sinn Féin.

We need everyone to show their support — come to the white-line picket and support the prison protest.

Geraldine Taylor

RSF Belfast

http://www.rsf.ie/ 

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