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Date Posted: Sun, Mar 06 2011, 2:00:40 PST
Author: CR Vets
Subject: Letter 2 Irish News-Challenge Strip Searches

LETTER TO THE IRISH NEWS, published, Sat. MARCH 5, 2011.
Re-circulated by the Derry & N-West Civil Rights Network – rights.civil@googlemail.com

HORRIFIC STRIP SEARCHES NEED TO BE CHALLENGED

Fionnbarra O’Dochartaigh (Feb. 24) highlighted that within Maghaberry there are republican prisoners still being brutally strip searched.

On August 12 last year, after long negotiations, an agreement was established. All those involved in these negotiations – the prisoner representatives, the facilitators and the NIO representatives – all signed the agreement, as a bond of their sincerities.

As part of the agreement it was ‘agreed’ that a new technology-led search would replace the humiliating strip searches.

Since last September that agreement has been reneged upon. On as many as 40 occasions, republican prisoners have been subjected to brutal, forced strip searches by up to eight members of the search team dressed in full body armour, while leaving for and returning from court and hospital appointments.

Fionnbarra raises the point that ‘silence is deafening from certain quarters’. This is certainly the case with a number of political representatives who assured both the prisoners and their families that they would challenge any human rights violations against prisoners.

There should be no hiding place for anyone committing such offences against prisoners.

MANDY DUFFY,
Lurgan, Co. Armagh.

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