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Subject: BBC 'Sit-in'

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Date Posted: 18:52:52 08/13/02 Tue
In reply to: Sunday Life 's message, "Pro-PoW 'Raid'" on 18:44:06 08/13/02 Tue

Subject : IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST:
>
Subject: IRPWA Protest BBC Media Blackout
>Date : Sun, 16 Jun 2002 19:18:40 +0100 (BST)
>
>IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE NEWSLIST
>http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net
>-----------------------------
>
>Subject: IRPWA Protest BBC Media Blackout
>Date: 06 15 02
>
>In an under-reported event last week, the Irish
>Republican Prisoners Welfare Association, led by
>Chairwoman Marian Price, staged a sit-down protest at
>the Belfast offices of the BBC on Monday, June 3rd.
>The peaceful sit-down at BBC�s North Ireland
>headquarters was held in response to a virtual media
>blackout to the IRPWA and its ongoing efforts to bring world-wide attention to the crisis situation at Maghaberry Prison.
>
>For the past two months, Irish Republican political
>prisoners at Maghaberry Prison have been living under
>constant threat of death from loyalist paramilitary
>prisoners, who are housed with the Republicans and
>outnumber them nearly eight to one. Several
>Republican POWs have been brutally assaulted over the
>past year while housed under these senseless and
>barbaric circumstances.
>
>The hysterical tone of the Sunday Life article below
>does not accurately reflect the tone of the protest,
>calling it a �daylight raid� and emphasizing security
>forces view that this protest represented a threat to
>celebrity newscasters at the BBC.
>
>As the �Footnote� commentary from the IA-PL NewsRoom
>accurately points out below,[see above] the main point of the protest, which was the continuing crisis situation for
>political prisoners at Maghaberry, was omitted entirely by the sensationalist angle of the piece.
>
>For more information on the deadly situation for Irish
>Republican Prisoners of War at Maghaberry, please go
>to:
>http://members.freespeech.org/irishpows/bb3/april_2002.
>htm#UDA%20Death%20Warnings%20Issued).
>
>
>The Irish Freedom Committee�
>http:////www.irishfreedomcommittee.net
>
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