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Date Posted: Sun, Sep 02 2012, 18:23:04 PDT
Author: Civil Rights Network
Subject: PRISON ALERT

PRISON ALERT � CIVIL RIGHTS NETWORK � rights.civil@gmail.com

Our network has been contacted by concerned friends of four men, remand prisoners, currently incarcerated in HMP Maghaberry. With much dissatisfaction we note the lack of humanitarian concern reflected in scant media coverage and inaction on the part of prominent public representatives since these inmates. all from Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, commenced a hunger-strike on August 14th. We are told that these men wish to be recognised as political prisoners. They include brothers Dessie and Tommy Hamill, Austin Creggan and Mark McGilloway. All have recently been separated within the jail. They desire to be reunited and allocated cells on what they term the �Republican landing�, or wing.

Our investigations aroused grave concern. Various activities, by what are described as �LVF prisoners� have created a situation whereby they feel that they are under serious physical threat. One incident involved the placing of an aerosol can in a microwave oven, which fortunately these men discovered, and removed, before any serious harm could occur. Following that incident these remand prisoners feel they are being harassed by prison staff because the blame has been wrongly placed on them for this provocative and dangerous action. Subsequent to the micro-wave incident they were refused the use of canteen facilities.Such was their state of mind and level of stress they agreed to cook for themselves so as to guarantee their own well-being. However, this was not permitted by prison staff when each of them was banned from using canteen facilities. Before deciding to engage in a hunger protest their sole food-intake was based on purchases from the prison�s �tuck-shop�.

Tommy Hamill, the father of two children, has lost 23 pounds in body-weight since August 14th. As is customary, the Civil Rights Network issues this communication based on humanitarian concerns rather than any other considerations, such as religious or political affiliations of those incarcerated. In the past we took a stand with loyalist families and their supporters who opposed the re-introduction of show-trials as in 2009-11, and publicly shared a platform in Derry on the Oct. 5th 1968 civil rights anniversary, when a cross-community Social Justice Network was mutually agreed and launched on Internet sites such as Facebook.

.Verification details:
Fionnbarra O�Dochartaigh B.A. [Hons.],
Network Co-ordinator,
Co-founder, Civil Rights Association, Belfast, 1967.
E-Mail: rights.civil@gmail.com ; Skype name: fionnbarra15; Mobile: 07783660181

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