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Subject: Stormont SF Take-Over? Author: "The Watch" [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:13:56 08/13/02 Tue Poster headed his e-mail "Stormont Sinn Féin take over - as forecast one this board [Stormont-Watch] with the help of RSF." >Revealed — SF letters to dissident prisoners > >(by Anthony Neeson, Irelandclick.com) > > Dissident republican prisoners in Maghaberry Jail have revealed that leading members of Sinn Féin have thrown their weight behind them in their battle for improved conditions. > > Joe Lagan, head of the Republican Sinn Féin POW department, says that a dissident republican prisoner currently on remand in Maghaberry has received letters from North Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly, Newry and Armagh MLA Conor Murphy and Mid-Ulster MLA John Kelly backing the prisoners’ call for the reinstatement of political status. > > “I have received a letter from a remand prisoner in Maghaberry stating that three members of Sinn Féin have written to him pledging support for the prisoners current plight,” said Joe. > > “Republican Sinn Féin welcome any support for the prisoners struggle. We would, however, ask what are these people now going to do, are they going to make their support public? > “The life-threatening conditions that the republican prisoners in Maghaberry are held in are now well documented and the fact remains, either you support them or you don’t. This is a black and white issue.” > > Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly confirmed that he and a number of other members of his party have sent letters to dissident republican prisoners in Maghaberry.. > > “Republicans died in a long, hard-fought battle for political status. That political status should still be there and the demands of prisoners in Maghaberry should be met,” said Gerry Kelly. Bear in mind, I myself protested for political status and a change in prison conditions. > > “It is a fact that loyalists are attacking prisoners in Maghaberry and segregation is an important issue, just as it was in the 70s and 80s. Irrespective of what those prisoners think of me, some of them are my constituents and I will do all I can to help them.” > >May 3, 2002 >________________ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]