Fuascailt call on Blair to release Roisin.
Fuascailt, the Irish Political Prisoners Campaign, has called on
British Prime Minister Tony Blair to release Roisin McAliskey as
soon as possible. The demand was made in a letter handed into
Downing Street by Maurice Quinlivan, Fuascailt convener on
Sunday, 1 June.
The letter also included calls for an end to the inhuman and
degrading conditions to which Irish republican prisoners are
subjected to, an end to the use of special secure units (SSUs)
and for the transfer and repatriation of Irish prisoners back to
Ireland.
There are currently 14 Irish political prisoners on remand in
England. They face 23 hours locked in their cells, no association
with other prisoners, no visits from family and friends because
both prisoner and their family face strip searches and are denied
any physical contact due to closed visits.
Maurice Quinlivan said, "many human rights groups including
Amnesty International demand that conditions be improved in jails
in England or that Irish Political Prisoners be transferred back
to Ireland to serve the rest of their sentence in line with
international agreement on transfer that Britain has signed. We
hope that a new Labour government, no longer relying on Unionists
to stay in power can bring new impetus and restore basic human
rights into the issue of political prisoners held in jails in
England".
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