Bloody Sunday by BrianClarkeNUJ
Derry
Aung San Suu Kyi Supports Ireland's Interned Marian Price International Women's Day
Aung San Suu Kyi's name is from three relatives: "Aung San" from her father, "Suu" from her paternal grandmother and "Kyi" from her mother Khin Kyi. Her name is pronounced approximately as "Awn Sahn Sue Chee." Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Yangon the main city of Burma. Her father, Aung San leader of the Burmese army negotiated Burma's independence from the British Empire in 1947; he was assassinated by his rivals in the same year.Aung San Suu Kyi grew up with her mother, Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San Oo, in Rangoon.
Aung San Suu Kyi was strongly influenced by both Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence and particularly by tenets of Buddhist enlightenment. Aung San Suu Kyi helped found the National League for Democracy in Myanmar commonly known as Burma and was politically interned on 20 July 1989. She was offered freedom by the military junta, if she left the country but she refused and as a result spent many years politically interned like Marian Price for her political principles.
Her basic political beliefs were well articulated in her most famous speech, "Freedom From Fear" speech, stating "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."She believes fear drives many world leaders to lose sight of their responsibilities. "Government leaders are amazing", she has said. "So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want."
Ireland's Marian Price currently interned in British Occupied Ireland has also spent many years interned British as a political prisoner. She has been tortured with solitary confinemnt and British sensory deprivation techniques for long periods of time. She was also force fed 400 times while on 200 days of Hunger-strike. In an interview with Suzanne Breen, Marian described being force-fed thus:
"Four male prison officers tie you into the chair so tightly with sheets you can't struggle," says Price. "You clench your teeth to try to keep your mouth closed but they push a metal spring device around your jaw to prise it open. They force a wooden clamp with a hole in the middle into your mouth. Then, they insert a big rubber tube down that. They hold your head back. You can't move. They throw whatever they like into the food mixer – orange juice, soup, or cartons of cream if they want to beef up the calories. They take jugs of this gruel from the food mixer and pour it into a funnel attached to the tube. The force-feeding takes 15 minutes but it feels like forever. You're in control of nothing. You're terrified the food will go down the wrong way and you won't be able to let them know because you can't speak or move. You're frightened you'll choke to death."
In the same interview, other statements she made give a good insight into her political thinking. With her sister Dolours and Gerry Kelly now a Sinn Féin politician in a power-sharing British administration, she was ordered by Belfast IRA OC Gerry Adams, as part of an 11-strong IRA unit in March 1973, to plant bombs at the Old Bailey, New Scotland Yard, Whitehall and the British Forces Broadcasting Office.
They were all arrested trying to fly home and a 200-day hunger-strike along with force-feeding regime made her a household name. "I did what I believed in," she said, "Nothing Provisional IRA or Sinn Féin leaders do can denigrate that. But I'm very angry when I see so much has been sacrificed for so little. All these lives have were lost, IRA volunteers, civilians, policemen, British soldiers and for what? If this is what they’re settling for, we all could have joined the SDLP back then."
Marion Price came from a very republican family in Belfast, her father being Albert Price a veteran IRA man of the 1940s campaign to get the British out, spent may years in British prisons and was also like his daughter Marian, politically interned for many years without trial. Like Aung San Suu Kyi they were both strongly influenced and loyal to their father's politics. Marian believes IRA membership has too often been explained away as an emotional response to events such as Bloody Sunday. "I made an ideological choice to join. It wasn't a reaction to Bloody Sunday, internment or anything else."
Marian's childhood ambition was to be a nurse and she secured one of only five places on a course at the Royal Victoria Hospital. "One day, a wounded British soldier was brought into casualty. He was wearing a dirty vest. He looked frightened. I felt very sorry for him. That night, I told my comrades and one joked that I should have finished him off. I asked why on earth I'd do that. He was no longer a soldier, he'd been taken out of the battlefield. He was a patient now, I'd have no difficulty looking after him."
When asked about the morality of planting bombs in densely populated areas such as London, she said "The warnings given were twice as long as in Belfast. That was a conscious decision because we knew the English lacked experience of evacuation. We didn't want civilian casualties, from a moral or pragmatic viewpoint."
There were however casualties when two bombs at the Old Bailey and Whitehall exploded, injuring 200 people with flying glass. She said, "I've never had a sleepless night over anything I've done as an IRA volunteer. Bombs are weapons of war. Western states have used them far more brutally than we ever did. George Bush and Tony Blair send other people's sons out to die without ever venturing onto the battlefield themselves. They dropped far bigger bombs from B52s on women and children and they don't give any warnings at all." Marian as an atheist explained further; "When I look around the world, I think if there’s a God, he's a bad God."
Marian one of the first fully fledged female IRA members, further explained, "My mother, her sisters, and my granny had been in Cumann na mBan. My Aunt Bridie was badly injured lifting an IRA arms dump in the 30s. It exploded and she lost her hands and sight. She was 26. When we were growing up, it was never a case of 'poor Bridie'. We were just proud of her sacrifice. She came home from hospital to a wee house with an outside toilet, no social worker, no disability allowance, and no counselling. She just got on with it."
Of her time being force fed on hunger strike, she said "Sometimes when they arrived to force feed me, I would struggle; other times I didn't have the energy to fight. The low point was having no control over your weight. But not for one minute did I think of giving up. They were never, ever going to break me."
Once they put the tube into Price's lung, not her stomach. "I felt like I was drowning. I passed out. They carried me back to my cell. The doctors were standing over me when I came round. If had been food, not water in the tube, it would have killed me. The medical and prison staff told the authorities they wouldn't force feed me again."
A fortnight later the hunger-strike ended and a deal was reached. The sisters were moved to Armagh's women prison where Mariaon was freed after five years suffering from anorexia and tuberculosis. She left prison half the weight she was when went in. She was given a Royal pardon prior to what is generally called the peace process or the Bad Friday Agreement.
On release she said she was in no physical or mental state to rejoin the IRA and had no interest in a political Sinn Féin career; "I like politics but not politicians. To be a politician, you must be a liar and a hypocrite." Although she was initially positive about provisional Sinn Féin: "I remember watching TV as Sinn Féin swept down the stairs in Belfast City Hall with Tricolour ribbons and champagne after an election victory. "
"My father was disgusted. He pointed to Gerry Adams and said, 'I've been around longer than you, that boy will sell you out'. I told him to give Sinn Féin a chance. I was wrong."After 1994, she had "serious concerns" about the leadership's political direction, eventually, she spoke out at a 'republican family' meeting expressing her doubts. Later a senior IRA member visited her home,; "He told me what I was saying wasn't appreciated and he'd shot people for less."
"People began to make financial gain from the movement. Those who had never worked a day in their lives, now had better homes, cars, and holidays than their neighbours. It used to be what you could do for the movement, now it's what the movement can do for you. In the past, to be a republican brought financial hardship. But that was okay because to be a republican was to be something special. You knew you were right."
Marian Price says that the peace process secured "a measure of equality" for Catholics, however a British withdrawal is further away than ever. She said however her military days are over but she can't condemn others "for doing what I did myself". Bearing in mind her track record of a highly principled political position which includes a 200 day hunger-strike most serious political analysts accept her veracity on that while she also says 'armed struggle' is morally justified "while the British occupy part of this country". further elaborating "Sometimes it’s necessary to do something just to let it be known there are people out there who don't accept the status quo.
She still has no regrets: "Disappointments maybe. I’m disappointed in Gerry Kelly. I expected more of him but I'd never detract from the physical bravery he showed. Gerry Adams and I were once friends. We certainly aren't now. He may have difficulty admitting his IRA past but I'm very, very proud of mine."
The Father-Daughter relationship was explored most famously in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Ultimately, Lear did not in his lifetime receive what he struggled so long for but he overcame death all the same and so it may prove with Aung San and Albert Price. Martyrdom, is often the same as divinity. Lear ensured, in his final tortuous moments, while not dictating his daughters their parts, he knew what was necessary to make his last moments inspiring and he pushed hard for it. While many of those around him, included, “murderous traitors, all” but like any good Irish martyr, he died alone unsupported and wronged by overcoming death by being remembered ironically, as a victim.
Lear while once a man of stone, in his desperate attempts to overcome the defeat of death, he performed his own apotheosis by appropriating the feminine and maternal body, Lear wrote his own tragic ending, that has served like the phoenix in Ireland to be part of Life's cycle of a nation's rebirth. This International Women's day will be a particularly poignant one for those Irish women, familiar with the Price of Justice legacy in Ireland and Internationally by women such as Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The World: Ulster's Price Sisters: Breaking the Long Fast Monday, June 17, 1974
So wrote TIME back in 1974 whne the sisters were on hunger strike 200 days and forcefed 400 times each !
Each day passes and we fade a little more. But no matter how the body may fade, our determination never will. We have geared ourselves for this and there is no other answer.
Dolours Price, May 27 letter to her mother
Sometimes we can achieve more by death than we could ever hope to living. We 've dedicated our lives to a cause and it's supremely more important than any one individual's life.
Marion Price, May 27 letter to her mother
Fate and politics have a way sometimes of cheating would-be martyrs. Belfast's Price sisters.
Today Marian is again being tortured by the British who have interned her without trial in solitary confinement for the last 9 months for her beliefs. Marian needs your help, to sign her petitions and to spread the censored word about her plight.
A long standing respected human rights campaigner and former prison chaplain Monsignor Raymond Murray has stated that the continuing detention of veteran republican Marian Price is internment without trial.
Ms Price was charged with encouraging support for the IRA at an Easter rally in Derry. The judge granted her bail based on the same intelligence reports that the Secretary of State had her ‘release licence’ revoked last May on an offence committed almost 40 years ago. Since then, she has been in solitary confinement prison up to last week.
Monsignor Raymond Murray said:
“This is a form of internment, I am just shocked that the Secretary of State wouldn’t be aware of how serious nationalist people look on internment.We thought it had all ended and here it is coming under a form of revocation, revoking a license.He would have to explain to us and explain the process of law as regards Marian Price.In any way has she broken the law? That would have to be provided but it is not provided by shoving her into prison on a pretence in an unjust way.”
In an article published on Wednesday 14 December 2011 at 03:11, Eamonn McCann explained it in the following manner:
"The continuing imprisonment of Marian Price in Maghaberry is a scandal and would be seen more widely in this light were it not for her politics.
Ms Price is in jail on the order of Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson, who signed a document last May ordering the police to put her behind bars.
She had been arrested on May 11th and charged with encouraging support for an illegal organisation. This arose from an action at the 32 Country Sovereignty Movement’s Easter commemoration in Derry city cemetery: on a blustery day, she reached up to hold the script from which a masked representative of the Real IRA was reading the ‘Easter Message’.
Two days later Ms. Price appeared at Bishop Street, where she applied for and was granted bail. She was rearrested when she came out onto the steps of the courthouse.
Mr Patterson had signed a document the previous night purporting to revoke the licence on which she had been released almost 30 years earlier from a life sentence for the 1973 Provisional IRA bombing of the Old Bailey.
If the Derry court had remanded Ms Price in custody, the document would not have been produced. We might not know even now that it existed.
It is not clear whether the prosecution had been aware of the document as it argued against bail. What’s clear is that the bail application had been a farce. The role of the court had been rendered meaningless by Mr Patterson preparing the way in advance to have the decision set aside if it went against his wishes.
This was as blatant an abuse of process as can be imagined.
The offence is compounded by the fact that here is real room for doubt whether Mr Patterson had authority to order Ms Price back to jail in the first place.
Her lawyers insist she had been freed from the Old Bailey sentence on the basis of a Royal pardon and that the terms of the pardon supersede the powers of the Secretary of State.
The lawyers have asked three times for the pardon to be produced. Three times, the State has maintained that no copy can be discovered.
At one point, her solicitor was told that the pardon must either have been lost or somehow been shredded.
Thus, Ms Price has spent the last seven months in Maghaberry, not on the basis of conviction for a crime but because Owen Patterson believes that the State is better off with her out of the way. She is imprisoned without trial - in everyday language, interned.
She is the only woman in an all-male prison and thus, for practical purposes, in solitary confinement. She is 57 years-old and in very poor health and in constant pain. But these are not the main reasons she should be released.
She should be released because it is an affront to justice and to the rights of citizens that she has been denied her liberty, and even denied sight of the evidence which Owen Patterson says he has seen and which he claims entitles him to deny her her liberty.
Rights - or privileges
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the reason there hasn’t been more of a hullaballoo about this matter is that many of those who might have been expected to stand up for civil rights are repelled by Ms Price’s politics.
Which means in turn that the extent to which civil rights are defended in the political mainstream is to some extent at least determined by the political beliefs of whomever is being denied their rights.
This means that the rights we speak of are not rights at all, but privileges to be granted or withheld according to a politician’s judgment of where the State’s interests lie.
The only adequate response is for all who value civil liberties to tell Mr Patterson loudly and with one voice – Free Marian Price now. "
Pat Ramsey an SDLP MLA who has campaigned for Marian from the outset has said that he has been questioned as to why he was fighting for the release of Marian Price.
"This is a personal thing. It is a right cause," he said. "It is injustice. If Marian Price was my sister, my loved one I would be deeply distressed as to the condition of her health. In the last year she has developed chronic medical problems. If she was my sister and she was on the outside I would be taking her to her GP and her GP would be admitting her to hospital immediately. It is that urgent. If there is any decency left in the world she should be at home, or the next best thing, in hospital."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has called on the Secretary of State to end the “debacle” over the detention of Marion Price, saying.
“Marian Price is entitled to due process and the revoking of her licence by the British Secretary of State and then claiming that the pardon granted to Ms Price cannot be found is completely unacceptable."
“That action by Owen Patterson amounted to detention without trial and runs contrary to natural justice. The justice system needs to be based on human rights protection; the revoking of Marian Price’s licence and the debacle created around the allegedly lost pardon is an attack on her human rights,”
.The national chairperson of the 32CSM Mr Francis Mackey today stated "The violation of Marian Price's human rights demonstrates how far the British government are prepared to go with their policy of internment in an attempt to break republican prisoners. This issue of injustice must be exposed for what it is. The plight of Marian Price stands above any political party or organisation and i urge all concerned about the case to come together in a spirit of unity to secure the release of Marian."
Mr Mackey highlighted the politicised nature of Marian's incarceration and stated "The facts are that Marian wasn’t out on licence for it to be revoked. She received a pardon which the British government now claim cannot be found. Only people power can now bring pressure to bear nationally and internationally on the British government. The move to Hydebank is merely transferring the problem. Marian will still be held in isolation and we hope that she receives the medical treatment she urgently requires."
The 32CSM will be escalating our campaign to highlight the case of Marian Price. With International Women’s day approaching on the 8th of March we urge all women’s groups to join us to highlight the case of a mother, wife and sister who is today interned in a British jail. Support Marian Price and work to secure her release.
Five days ago the Northern Ireland Office in the absence Of Owen Paterson having the balls to explain or make a statement himself said the secretary of state "entirely refutes" the allegation that republican Marian Price is being effectively interned without trial."The secretary of state entirely refutes the allegation that this is internment without trial."
The author is not surprised, its same pish the British have served for the last 40 years treating the Irish as fools and justifying to the world, with their BBC type world service propaganda that their perfidious, insidious, odious INTERNMENT without trial legacy of wartime Britain is appropriate after their much touted bad Friday pish process. The Secretary of State is either a fool a liar or both or perhaps a plain perfidious, insidious, odious, Albion, autocrat?
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The Guineapigs is the title of a book by John McGuffin, where Irish political prisoners on whom the British Army experimented with sensory deprivation torture since 1971. These 'techniques' are now outlawed, following Britain's conviction at the International Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, but have been exported and sold Britain's allies using extraordinary rendition throughout the world and still used by Britain in Occupied Ireland. This book first issued in 1974, was published by Penguin in London. It sold out on its first print and was then abruptly taken off the market following serious pressure from the British Government.
In Ireland during the last forty years of the troubles there has been deliberate and careful use of modern torture techniques, not simply to get information but to perfect the system of Sensory Deprivation for use against civilians in the future. The practice still continues to this very day on Marian Price who is currently interned in solitary confinement for the last 9 months without trial, in an all male prison in British Occupied Ireland.
The author of the book John McGuffin was an ex-internee himself before his sudden death and spent two years researching the book, following his release from Crumlin Road jail where he had been held without charge or trial. In the last edition he named the torturers and those responsible for this sordid episode in British Imperial history.However, no member of the British Army or the Royal Ulster Constabulary has ever been convicted of torture or brutality to prisoners, although the Government has been forced to pay out millions in compensation to torture victims.
The re-issue of 'The Guineapigs' was dedicated to the blanket men of Long Kesh concentration camp and the women political prisoners in Armagh jail, one of whom was Marian Price who has been re-interned last year without trial. 'Na reabhloidi Abu.'
Over 200 people attend public meeting to discuss Marian Price case
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 23:20 -- Editor
There was standing room only tonight at the Tower Hotel as the public gathered to discuss the case of Marian Price.
Over 200 people came to hear human rights activists discuss the 58-year-old's continued imprisonment at Maghaberry prison.
Monsignor Raymond Murray, SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey, Eamonn McCann and Bloody Sunday campaigner Linda Nash all addressed the crowd seperately, each expressing their deep concern for Ms Price's health and well-being after over nine months in isolation.
Ms Price has been held in solitary confinement at Maghaberry Prison for over nine months without charge. She was arrested after holding a piece of paper for a masked man at an annual Easter Rising commemoration in Derry, a few days later Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson revoked her release from prison on license.
Linda Nash made an impassioned plea for Ms Price's release. She quoted research which showed that psychological damage can occur after 15 days in isolation, and that Ms Price had now been isolated for nine months. She said Ms Price has a medical condition which needs careful and frequent monitoring of medication which is impossible in prison.
"Internment is internment no matter how you dress it up," she said. "Enough is enough. Marian should not be in prison. Release her now."
Pat Ramsey was told the gathered crowd that he had been questioned as to why he was fighting for the release of Marian Price.
"This is a personal thing. It is a right cause," he said. "It is injustice. If Marian Price was my sister, my loved one I would be deeply distressed as to the condition of her health. In the last year she has developed chronic medical problems. If she was my sister and she was on the outside I would be taking her to her GP and her GP would be admitting her to hospital immediately. It is that urgent. If there is any decency left in the world she should be at home, or the next best thing, in hospital."
Mr Ramsey also highlighted other prison issues such as strip searching in Maghaberry and revealed that the Justice Minister David Ford was tonight visiting Portloise Prison in Dublin to review their search model, which eradicated the need for strip searching.
Monsignor Raymond Murray, the former Chaplain at Armagh Gaol, then addressed the audience telling them that through history Internment did nothing except allow the continuation of conflict and the rise of hopelessness.
"Will the British government ever learn?" he asked. "After the 1970s did we ever think that Internment would happen again in 2012? Marian's case must be widened to a global case. The British government are forever concerned about their image all over the world. Let us make it our job to tell the world of the ill treatment of a prisoner in their care.
"Marian Price is not a number. She is not some abstract person. She is a person with all the wonder of a human being. She is a wife, a mother, a sister. The sheer number of people who have come here tonight speaks volumes. We will not forget her. She must be released."
Monseignor Murray said that he had written to Secretary of State Owen Paterson on the issue but had yet to receive a reply.
Eamonn McCann said that Marian Price's continued imprisonment was a 'scandal'.
"I find it hard to believe that a government department would keep just one copy of the Royal Perogative of Mercy that pardoned Marian Price and would now secure her release. That is not how governments work. In my opinion Owen Paterson put Marian Price into Maghaberry on MI5 opinion, because they thought the place would be better off without her.
"There are some here who wouldn't agree with Marian's politics. This is not a political issue, it's a humanitarian one.
"The right to freedom is not just for nice people. It's either for everybody or it's for nobody."
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The European Court of Human Rights has in certain instances, prevented the extradition from Britain on the presumption, that detainees would be housed in solitary confinement thus constituting torture and inhumane detention. The United Nations Human Rights Committee says, that prolonged solitary confinement is without doubt torture.
The concept of sensory deprivation, is that when you isolate political prisoners like Marian Price, restrict her lateral vision and limit her contact with the outside world, her senses are exasperated, creating the conditions of a paradoxical realm, where limited sensorial experience is magnified.
In 1965 an experiment by psychiatrists, confined 65 people in isolated conditions, goggles over their eyes, plugs in their ears and confinement in a chair. After just 48 hours, 5 of 65 had acute anxiety disorder. One hysterical, another epileptic, with all prisoners diagnosed with extreme anxiety. Today’s British conditions of solitary confinement, produce disorders over time, which is observed by psychiatrists, documented for future torture, which includes sustained symptoms like insomnia, hallucination, claustrophobia, persisting in Marian's case with many more extremely painful physical conditions, from previous force feeding over 200 days and other torture by the British previously.
One derivative of the use of solitary confinement by the British, as a means of punishing Irish political prisoners, is the objective to torture and enforce silence, while pressuring Irish prisoners of conscience and force them to accept agreements that prevent any future campaigns for Irish freedom. The use of solitary confinement by the British, remains mostly undocumented or censored in the public realm but the maintained use of such repressive practices, poses potentially severe ramifications for the future of dissent, not just in Ireland but serves as an experiment for future use in an increasingly polarized British society.
The civil rights era, which included British Occupied Ireland, involved prison protests like the Attica riots of 1971, paving the way for productive reform in the U.S. but not in the UK, where despite decades of prison protest by Irish political prisoners and the death of 10 hunger strikers, conditions have actually deteriorated.
Today talk of human rights in Britain, especially within the context of European Standards, tends to cover a manipulative compromise with the power elite, which now includes Provisional Sinn Fein, who in highly paid, supposed power sharing, in fact help administer British torture, while diverting attention away from structural cause of injustice, particularly in the instance of Occupied Ireland.
The contradictions of Britain's brutality with regard to European Human rights, becomes clearly apparent with regard to civil liberties, in its confrontation in Ireland, for anyone who can break through the various veils of technological censorship, to witness the citizens of Ireland and Europe, termed British commoners as in the case of Marian Price being tortured.
Marian has been reduced to an object of propaganda by Britain's disgraced right-wing media, who along with a malignant civil service and corrupt judiciary, permits the shredding of critical legal documents, vital for a fair trial, without juries, in a state of political bigotry, doctored photographs and secret intelligence spin doctor opinion makers, in a constant barrage about British state enemies, in order to maintain public support for British Occupation and psychological warfare operations on the general population in Ireland, its long-standing laboratory for political future repression in Britain in general.
During World War II, German physicians conducted painful and deadly experiments in concentration camps on prisoners without consent, who were interned without trial, just like Marian Price and other Irish political prisoners are today. The most infamous being the experiments of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Scientists tested a number of methods to develop efficient and inexpensive procedure for mass political control of the general population by Nazi leaders just like the British today.
Martin Niemoller who survived to tell of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp, said, “When the Nazis came to the Communists, I was silent. After all I was no Communist. When they took the Jews, I was silent. I am no Jew. When they arrested the Social Democrats, I was silent. I was no Social Democrat. When they came to take me, there was no one left to protest."
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Marian Price along with hundreds of British prisoners, remains in solitary confinement, deep within the Belly of the British Beast, yearning to be free of British torture, that ignores European Human rights to Irish political and other political prisoners in Britain. Today it is Marian Price, tomorrow it may be you or your children, unless you organize and stand up be counted. Marian Price was previously used as a guinea pig in 200 days of force feeding by the British many years ago, as result, she is in daily physical agony. Your silence under such circumstances is consent to torture and future slavery.
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Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain
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Professor AWB Simpson, University of Michigan
This lecture gives an account of the response of the courts to detention without trial during World War II, in which they largely abandoned any role in protecting civil liberty.
The European Human Rights Act of 1998 has radically altered this position, though the inherent problems involved when regular courts monitor the activities of security services in times of crisis persist today.
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Big 40 Year Commemoration of Bloody Sunday Families Call for Release of Marian Price
Because of British Cover Up, Censorship and dis-information the CAUSE of Marian Price had to be divided into 6.
Please Join the CAUSES of Marian Price, Re-Share, Re Tweet to overcome censorship in British Occupied Ireland !
BBC DEMOCRACY LIVE MARIAN PRICE DEBATE IS SECTARIAN BIGOTRY | http://bit.ly/BIGOTSdebate
FREE PRICE in British Occupied Ireland - http://bit.ly/CensoredFreePrice
FREE INTERNED INNOCENT IRISH ANGEL IN BRITISH OCCUPIED IRELAND http://bit.ly/CENSORINGmarianPRICE
FREE INTERNED INNOCENT IRISH ANGEL IN BRITISH OCCUPIED IRELAND | http://bit.ly/CENSORINGmarianPRICE
BRITISH CENSORED CAUSE TO STOP TORTURE OF MARIAN PRICE 1,549 MEMBERS RISES AGAIN - http://bit.ly/CENSOREDcause
STOP THE xxxx OF MARIAN PRICE | http://bit.ly/CENSOREDMarianPrice
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BBC SEXED UP - http://www.causes.com/bbcBIGOTRY
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BLOODY SUNDAY 40 Years Political Internment Torture Censorship Occupied Ireland http://bit.ly/ThePRICEofJUSTICE
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