THE CRUDE and brutal lengths to which the British | Constabulary before the European Court of Human were nakedly displayed last week.
Manchester, two men Students.
campaigns for political prisoners in the North of Ireland.
Victim number two Government will go to silence critics of its Irish rule In police and Army operations in Derry and were arresied under the Prevention of Terrorism Act on their way to address the Blackpool conference of the National Union of Victim number one was Jim Gibney, secretary of the Belfast Relatives Action Committee.
status for Republican Gibney was due to address a fringe meeting in Blackpool organised by the International Tribunal on Britain's Presence in Ireland. He was arrested under the PTA on 5 April as he stepped off a plane in Manchester. As Socialist Challenge went to press, he was still being held in Manchester Detention Centre.
was Michael Montgomery.
Montgomery was one of the 14 witnesses who testified to being tortured by the British Army and Royal Uister attended.
Rights. which Socialist Group and Big He was due to address the student conference on the treatment he received. He was leaving his home on Thursday when he was arrested under the PTA by British soldiers. One is reported to have said to him: "You don't think you're going to Blackpool do you."
Gibney has recently been released from Long Kesh prison in the North of Ireland, after serving 14 months on remand.. The charge was eventually dropped. Montgomery has had no dealings with the security forces for two years, and has just spent six weeks in This latest attack on civil liberties and Ireland has not gone unanswered. The NUS conference sent a telegram of protest to the Home Office, and in Manchester on Saturday a picket was held outside the Detention Centre in protest at Gibney's arrest. Members of the United Troops Out Movement, Workers Party.
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