Monthly Archives: febbraio 2008

Morto l’ex Hunger Striker Brendan Hughes

The former hunger striker and IRA commander Brendan Hughes has died in hospital. The 59-year-old Belfast man was taken into hospital last week after becoming critically ill. His family said he passed away on Saturday night. He was the “officer commanding” IRA prisoners in the Maze jail and ordered a dirty protest and later led the first republican hunger strike

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MEDICAL NEGLECT AT PORTLAOISE PRISON

Action request by the IFC MEDICAL NEGLECT AT PORTLAOISE PRISON 12 February 2008 Irish Freedom Committee NewsList http://www.irishfreedomcommittee. net The shameful record of medical neglect to Irish Republican political prisoners continues at Ireland’s Portlaoise Prison!! Aidan Hulme, long in grave pain from a poorly treated injury sustained before he was first interned in a British prison over 6 years ago;

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John Brady resta in carcere

John Brady nonostante sia caduta l’accusa per tentato omicidio. Fu condannato all’ergastolo per l’omicidio di David Black (RUC Reserve Constable) nel 1991 ma poi rilasciato nel 1998 secondo l’accordo del Good Friday Agreement. La lincenza è stata revocata ed arrestato nuovamente nel novembre del 2003. Nell’ottobre del 2006 Lord Chief Justice Brian Kerr ha ordinato che Brady sconti almeno 15

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