Nationalist, republican and socialist politicians came together in Derry this week to support a campaign for the release from prison of prominent local republican Tony Taylor.

Politicians including Eamonn McCann of People before Profit, the SDLP’s Mark H Durkan, Sinn Fein’s Paul Fleming and independents Anne McCloskey and Gary Donnelly came together to call for to end his internment.

The following is a summary of the Taylor case by Pauline Mellon.