The Five Demands

British NGOs, activists, academics and lawyers call for release of Marion Price and Martin Corey (Pat Finucane Centre)

Delegates at a London Symposium on Policing this week signed an open letter to Secretary of State Owen Patterson MP calling on him to order the immediate release of Marion Price and Martin Corey whose ‘indefinite detention without trial is contrary to fundamental human rights principles.’

Signatories include the family of Mark Duggan whose shooting death at police hands in London last summer provoked riots in a number of English cities, solicitors from a number of firms specialising in human rights protection, staff from the Institute of Race Relations and other NGOs including INQUEST, ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION and the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain.

Paul O’Connor of the PFC, who attended the symposium, described the support of the London delegates as ‘another sign of the growing disquiet and concern at the use of so-called ‘secret evidence’ which is impossible to challenge or disprove and which leads to the indefinite detention of individuals on the basis of undisclosed allegations from the Security Service MI5. When delegates were asked to sign this open letter there was an overwhelming response – people understood the issue and understood the dangers posed by the use of ‘secret evidence’. Marian Price and Martin Corey should be released immediately.

See signatories below.
PFC

We the undersigned call on the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Owen Patterson M.P., to order the immediate release of Marion Price and Martin Corey.
Both have been denied due process and have been returned to prison on the basis of spurious undisclosed ‘intelligence‘. Their on-going and indefinite detention without trial is contrary to fundamental human rights principles.