Republican News · Thursday 13 March 1997

[An Phoblacht]

Set her free!

There is no excuse for the continued detention of Roisín McAliskey, it is clear this week, as the British and German governments come under increasing Irish and international pressure over her case.

Roisín is entering her eighth month of pregnancy in a British prison while Germany, at the behest of British interrogators, continues to demand her extradition in connection with the IRA bombing of a barracks at Osnabrück.

Fianna Fáil leader Bertie Ahern this week accused British Home Secretary Michael Howard of ``constant petty tyranny'' with regard to Irish political prisoners. Protests were held in Germany, England, Ireland, Norway, Australia, the USA and elsewhere this week in support of Roisín McAliskey and pressure is mounting to end the tradition of treating Irish prisoners as less than human in British prisons.

Our photos show a protest outside the German Lufthansa airline office in New York last Saturday and a student fast outside the British embassy in Dublin on Wednesday.

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