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Date Posted: 13:09:01 08/13/02 Tue

05/05/02

>Statement from Bernie Mc Laughlin,
>wife of Republican prisoner Ciaran Mc Laughlin.
>
>I wish to take this opportunity to thank all those who
>campaigned on behalf of my husband in his successful
>fight for compassionate parole.
>
>The pressure applied by Republicans across the six
>counties, their presence on the streets and the way in
>which Ciaran�s case was made public both in the local
>and national press, ensured that the British
>government became embarrassed enough to consider
>granting him a limited form of compassionate parole.
>
>As you know our grandson Kyle is suffering from a
>fatal condition and we don�t know how long he will
>survive, as with all families it is important to be
>close during these times of heartbreak and hardship.
>
>Unfortunately my husband�s parole conditions did not
>even allow him to cross the river Foyle to visit our
>family home in the eight short hours he was out of
>those gates.

>My husband is now serving his second jail sentence as
>a Republican prisoner because of the continuing
>failure of British policy in Ireland. He asks for no
>privileges from this foreign government but he demands
>the right to compassionate parole for himself and his
>comrades. Republican prisoners have a hundred per cent
>record of honouring their conditions of parole and no
>POW would ever consider jeopardising another comrade
>the chance, while incarcerated, to visit a sick or
>dying relative. The British government and its prison
>service lackeys know this, therefore any denial or
>delay in the granting of compassionate parole can only
>be viewed as mental torture and punishment, not only
>for the prisoner but also for his family who are
>treated by the state as guilty by association.
>
>We have nothing to thank the Government or the prison
>authorities for, had not our family and its supporters
>persevered in their campaign then Ciaran�s situation
>would have gone on being ignored. We only hope that
>Ciaran�s case and his success, though limited, will
>serve as an example to us all of our own strength and
>to the British of the futility of their policy of
>abusing the rights of Republican prisoners and their
>families.

>We are stronger than them and WE SHALL OVERCOME.

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