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Date Posted: Wed, Jan 10 2007, 14:28:31 PST
Author: Aidan Hulme
Subject: Letter to Editors & To Whom It May Concern

LETTER TO THE EDITOR �IN-CHIEF
DERRY JOURNAL GROUP.

To all my friends and supporters here in Ireland, in
Britain, the USA and Sweden, through your columns, I send them
New Year greetings and good wishes for 2007. I wish also to thank
several journalists, human rights and civil liberties groupings at home and
abroad, who were alerted to my plight, by such voluntary bodies as
the civil rights veterans� network based in Derry City.

My brother Robert and I have settled in well on E-3
Wing since our arrival here last month. The men here -
and on the other wings - have been very supportive and
welcoming, and the medical treatment I am receiving
for my injured leg is more than adequate.

In due course I am to be moved to Portlaoise hospital
for more tests, and the medical people here assure me
more can and will be done to help me walk again. That's
in sharp contrast to what I was told in Full Sutton
prison last year - that no more could, or would be
done - for my injury, and that I would probably lose
my leg. I believe now that if my repatriation had not
happened my medical condition - and my health
generally - would have greatly deteriorated.

I know many people campaigned for me over the years I
spent in England's jails. To them I send my profound
thanks and appreciation. To the organisations and
groups that never failed to highlight my situation
with protests and pickets in Dublin, Chicago, London and
New York etc I include all in my thanks.

Many people helped raise my morale by keeping in
regular contact with me, with letters and cards at
Christmas and Easter. I would like them to know their
thoughtfulness was appreciated at the time - and
although I didn't always reply to them individually -
those letters on many occasions raised my spirits in
no small way when I was feeling low.

I would like specifically to thank individuals like Diana in
New York, who has kept up a regular correspondence
with me with letters and cards etc.

Thanks also to Terry Gavin in London for her letters and
postage stamps etc, they were always welcome, and
thanks to Fionnbarra in Derry for his Trojan work and
intervention on my behalf on numerous occasions.

I wish you all a very happy New Year, and I sincerely
hope you will all continue to remain in contact with
me, as I greatly value your friendship, even though I have never
met many of you.

Please remember also Noel Maguire, now isolated and vulnerable
in Full Sutton Prison where he was subjected to an unprovoked life-threatening attack and hospitalised in October 2005. Noel is currently not only the last remaining Irish POW in England, but is now apparently a political hostage as well. His most recent repatriation application should be reviewed immediately as a matter of urgency, not least by Justice Minister Michael McDowell TD, but also Dublin-based civil servants in his department and those in Foreign Affairs.

Aiden Hulme
Portlaoise Prison
E-3 Wing

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