Al am writing on behalf of the tee to inform you of the latest Noel Murray thirty years penal servitude for the murder or sarca nevnoos ano 1s serving his sentence Curragh Prison Camp; Marie Muray is to be retried 25 April for WHIC Capild. murder Gard Reynolds, again in the Special Criminal Court a non-jury court established under the emergency Marie Murray awaiting the death sentence months after being charged. If the coun tinos that Mane him or, in all the circumstances, - then she ouent to nave Know! will De Toung cumy OT capila murder and sentenceo to nanci The trial is however a complete so the produce dence to prove that Marie actually look oar in une roooer and sno Reynolds.
honan Senson, who was oug inally charged along Murrays, but tried separately afte COUrS WIIIE giving evidence in the Murray trial. was recently released on a 'tech technicality was that not been brought before CoUr or Ine o Decial criminal 2,500 demonstrated on Saturday 19 March against the Criminal Tres.
pass proposals [Part Il of the Government's Criminal Law Bill currently before Parliament.
The demonstration went from Euston to Highbury Fields via the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital occupation.
A wide range of organisations from all over brutam were repre sented, including branches ASTMS, NALGO, T&GWU, NAPO, NUJ:
Labour Parties, Student Unions, SWP, London District of the CP, IMG and many squatting and housing groups.
DISRUPTED The march itself, organised by the Campaign Against a Criminal Tres pass Law, wassponsored by NUPE, ALEW/TASS. ACTTS. NALGO the South East Region of the TUC and NUS The march was disrupted by bolice when une arrested demonstrator near Upper Police Station, resulting in the bulk of the march halting there until the release of the arrested man. He was charged with insulting behaviour.
Under the Criminal Trespass proposals, people taking part in occupations, squatting and many forms of picketing would be subject to fines and imprisonment by police whose powers of search and arrest without warrant would be equalled only by those given under the Prevention of Terrorism Act DECISIVE The Campaign is at a decisive stage and an all-out effort will be made to explain to me rank and flie that the proposals are part of the TON TIS of the Social Contract Militants in the labour movement.
Cana scuatting groups wne are being used as the reason for the introducuon or ine proposals, mus!
playa prominent part in the national strike action on 19 April against the Social Contract, fighting for public ODDOSHION LU the Bill in every occupation and direct action. li meansthe Campaign will also firmly defend squatters who will probably hethe first to suffer attacks from the Court as soon as convenient' as stipulated.
Noel and Marie Murray also, like Stenson, arrested when the Gardai entered their home under a search warrant issueo under une rurearm: Act nowever arms were touna. ai the time of his arrest, Noel Murray His ball ud completery case. Technically he should have been brought immediately to the Special Criminal Court to answer still in ac. in an. or inese cases where the accused persons have been released on "technicalities" tial evidence to prove ill-treatment ano lonute Dy were released brevent publicity being given well-substantiated allegations of State brutality.
TORTURE The Irish Times has mace wei cocumented stantiated allegations of ill-treat ment, assault and South of Irel evidence indicating that many of me torture recnniques usec ov ine State torces demned in Strasbourg instigation of Southern ornment, are, in lack, aiso being AFTER A TRIAL lasting 76 day bombings and seven armed robberies.
Occupied a special Diace workers Loyalist aftermath of the Uister National Front, At the that Rees savager "procramme cocialisis Renublicans specialise Catholic pubs used to extract intormation ano 'confessions' from prisoners in the South. separate As you probably Murray alleged that he had beer while in Mane mundy was orced to signa statement to tne cres or pain trom her husband. WhO cell and me maradi. iney Many manes own conression to such under curess ane ineretore inad missable, coupled with Stenson's 'confession' trial and accepted. has since been released and his statement neld to oe inacmis recently sable. it must, ineretore, also De in ana SUD which leaves the prosecution with substantial torture Soever It has presentec All of these the release of Stenson and others north on anechnicalues been con- publicity of the ill-treatment and GovTimes of police brutality and use members of the illega sentenced to a total of nearly 700 years last week. Eight were convicted or lite on chardes incucine tour murders. unree attemptec muroers, six period before August 1975 when the UVF was a legal organisation.
Amongst the various Loyalist paramilitary gangs, the UVF has always Founded in 1912-13 to mobilise against Home Rule. it provided the bulk of the recruits for the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the 'Specials' when the Be O'Neill was Unionist Prime Minister in the 60s, it was the UVF who initiated a 'strategy of tension' openly threatening the lives of the O'Neill "traitors', path for the murderous fanaticism of Paisley and the ousting of O'Neill Their relationship to the Unionist nierarcny and ine brusn state is like that of any fascist gang to its capitalist paymasters. After initiating the part of Merlyn Rees's 'Ulsterisation' policy. Organising under the name of the 'Volunteer Political Party' thev aligned themselves with the British savino that ant Unionist resistance wouia oniy D smashed in the context of a British fascist stat thad them proscribed again 107 proscribed again included the physical liquidation of all in wnich category iney Catholic population] and the destruction of the organised working class.
murder and no-warning bombing:
Sometimes they operate in uniform as in the infamous case of the Miami Showband massacre. As a snock solac for me oris amy, inev are ceneraly cir to une owE murderous devices, keeping the sectarian pot boiling.
know, Noel was in whom, 'confess' It is Anese chardes relateo to mne officers and armed Blowing up reservoirs trial judge. they prepared the UVr declared illegal; in Council strike, they were legalised as closer liaison of such Communists, Ine entre forestra rom Limerick only wen tney go acceptable level of violence' that the "legitimate brutality decide to discipline them. Examples of what is 'unacceptable include revealing what the composition drilling in UDR platoons, going on UDR communities and treat traitors' to the Orange cause in much the sam way as they treat the half million Catholic enemies of the stat his latest 'coup' by the RUC is no exception to the rule murderers on the charge sheet, three were roweenies WelC fund-raising community in Antrim. According to the RUC al remain unsolved The RUC are in no doubt as to who the real enemy is for them; as accusations of torture of canolics mount. ine nuts rediy is toonn back hanging, more repression by the troops, tighter press controls with the UDR politicians and the member at the weekend and The casualty fists to the British they were caretul to add that they had no wish to be in the front line -that was the job of the British Army!
Anti-Unionists do not need to be told that the British Army is in the front-line of the defence of the Six County state; nor do they take muct notice of Roy Mason's denial that the force. Neither are they much impressed with the so-called 'elimination or tne uvrs Anirm orgade Their solution to terrorists and torturers NoW or British occupation torces is absolutely clear - TROOPS OUT of a 'heavy gang' of interrogators 'confessions' and inviolent torture techniques; ano ine now totally macecudie evidence against Marie Murray all necessitate and demand the both Noel and Marie Murray, the abolition of capital punishment and the end ing or ine special criminal court MURRAY DEFENCE COMMITTEE * Marie Murray awaits her retrial in Women's Prison. Noel beyond what Merlyho ces of terror an Rees termed 'an of the UDR is like by Of the four members of the UDA; all the activities Loyalis the prosecution and the the vr's real tau was nots sectanan voience, Dut is of anti-Unionists and in particular th all committed by the lost their hundredtt • UDR topped 70 is.
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