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Date Posted: Thu, Jan 18 2007, 15:29:32 PST
Author: Sinn F�in Poblachtach - Cork
Subject: Sinn F�in Poblachtach to picket Portlaoise prison.

Sinn F�in Poblachtach to picket Portlaoise prison

The Republican Sinn F�in POW Department will be placing a picket on Portlaoise prison on Saturday, January 20 between 2pm and 4pm. The picket is being held to coincide with a 24-hour fast by the Republican prisoners in Portlaoise. The fast by the Republican prisoners is in solidarity with the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison, outside Belfast, where the prisoners have been engaged in a protest campaign since June 2006 to secure their right to political status.

From the beginning of the protest in Maghaberry prison the Republican prisoners in Portlaoise have been holding one 24-hour fast on a weekly basis, alternating the days each week. The purpose of the picket by the Republican Sinn F�in POW Department is twofold, to publicly the thank the Portlaoise POWs for their act of solidarity with the POWs in Maghaberry and to bring to public attention the ongoing struggle by the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison for their right to political status, a right which was established due to the sacrifice of Bobby Sands and his nine fellow hunger strikers in the H Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981.

In 1998 the Provisionals in signing up to the Stormont Agreement signed that right away and lent their support to the British government�s criminalisation of Republican prisoners and by extension the ongoing struggle for Irish freedom. The Portlaoise picket is part of a nation wide campaign in support of the Maghaberry Republican POWs in rejecting this latest attempt by the British government to label �Ireland�s fight 800 years of crime.�

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