Movement on prisoners essential, say SFY
Members of the newly formed Dublin North East Sinn Féin Youth
cumann held a very well attended protest for the release of
political prisoners in Donaghmede this week.
Local SFY member Mick Webster said that the importance of the
protest was paramount at the moment, while conditions for many
prisoners have not changed in recent times despite the goodwill
generated by political developments.
Citing the lack of movement by British Home Secretary Jack Straw
on the the repatriation of Patrick Kelly and James Murphy, who
applied for transfer back to Ireland in January and had those
applications approved by the Dublin Government in May, Mick
commented that ``prisoners of war must be treated as such and in
the current political climate Jack Straw's unwillingness to move
on the issue contravenes everything that is happening''.
The predicament of another prisoner held in England, Séamus
McArdle was also highlighted at the picket. Paul O'Connell of SFY
said that his detention in a Special Secure Unit in Belmarsh was
``inhumane and unjust and this has also been the line taken by
Amnesty International''.
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