Picket at Dublin City Hall on Monday

A chara,

Mar eolas duit beidh an Feachtas ar son Shaoirse do Mharian Price BÁC ag reáchtáil piceád taobh amuigh de Halla na Cathrach, Dé Luain an 2ú Iúil ag a 6.30i.n. Beidh comhairleoirí cathrach ag plé cáis Mharian ag an cruinniú comhairle agus ag díospóireacht rúin ag glaoch do Mharian Price a scaoileadh saor. Bí linn agus scaip an scéal. Ní bheidh aon phóstaeir páirtí polaitiúil ag an bpicéad.

Freisin, mar iatan leis an ríomhphost seo gheobhaidh tú litir sínithe ag TDanna, Comhairleoirí, Seanadóirí, baill de chléir agus daoine acadúla ag glaoch do Mharian a scaoileadh saor. Seoladh an litir seo chuig nuachtáin náisiúnta agus réigiúnda i rith na seachtaine. Le do thoil, cuir ar bhlaganna, fóraim ar-líne agus ar ghréasáin shóisalta.

For your information the Free Marian Price Dublin Campaign will be holding a picket outside of Dublin City Hall on Monday, the 2nd of July at 6.30pm. City councillors will be discussing Marian’s case at the council meeting and debating a motion calling for the release of Marian Price. Please join us and spread the word. There will be no party political posters at the picket.

Also, you will find attached a letter signed by TDs, Councillors, Senators, members of the clergy and academics calling for Marian’s release.This letter was sent to national and regional newspapers during the week. Please post it on blogs, online forums and on social networks.

Hoping to see you on Monday.

Le dea-ghuí,

The Free Marian Price Dublin Campaign

FREE MARIAN PRICE CAMPAIGN    –    DUBLIN

www.freemarian.co.nr

freemarianpricedublin@gmail.com

085-7355217

 

June, 2012

 

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

We, the undersigned, wish to draw your attention to the continued detention of Marian Price, which we feel constitutes an alarming breach of human and civil rights.

 

Marian had previously served a long jail sentence in England and in the North and was released and pardoned in 1980 due to ill-health resulting from force-feeding over many months in 1973 and 1974.

 

Marian Price was arrested in May 2011 on the basis of charges, which have since been dismissed. At the time she was granted bail for those charges and has also been granted bail on subsequent charges brought against her, yet she remains imprisoned by order of Owen Paterson, British Secretary of State, who claimed to revoke her licence.

 

Marian’s health and welfare are at the forefront of this campaign and she has been declared too ill to attend court after spending over a year in isolation.

 

Marian Price is the victim of psychological torture and internment without trial, and as a result of this her mental health and physical health has deteriorated rapidly. Given the concerns about her very poor health, we are calling for her immediate release based on humanitarian grounds.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Monsignor Raymond Murray, Human Rights Activist; Fr. Peter McVerry SJ, Centre for Faith and Justice; Fr. Seán McManus, President of the Irish National Caucus, USA; Margaretta D’Arcy, Aosdána/Women In Media Entertainment; Éamon Ó Cuív TD; Maureen O’Sullivan TD; Thomas Pringle TD; Joan Collins TD; Richard Boyd Barrett TD; John Browne TD; Gerry Adams TD; Martin Ferris TD; Dessie Ellis TD; Séan Crowe TD; Michael Colreavy TD; Jonathan O’Brien TD; Mary Lou McDonald TD; Pearse Doherty TD; Sandra McLellan TD; Brian Stanley TD; Padraig MacLochlainn TD; Aengus O’Snodaigh TD; Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD; Peadar Toibín TD; Joe Higgins TD; Clare Daly TD; Cllr. Louise Minihan; Cllr. Mannix Flynn; Cllr. Christy Burke; Cllr. Cieran Perry; Cllr. Melisa Halpin; Cllr. Brid Smith; Cllr. Hugh Lewis; Cllr. Niall Ring; Cllr. Anna Quigley;

Cllr. Pat Dunne; Cllr. Vincent Jackson; Cllr. Damien O’Farrell; Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú; Senator Jim Walsh; Senator Kathryn Reilly; Senator David Cullinane;

Senator Trevor O’Clochartaigh; Senator Darragh O’Brien; Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill; Dr. Féilim Ó hAdhmaill, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC;

Dr. Ciarán Dawson, Centre for Oral Irish, UCC; Dr. Órla O’Donovan, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC; Dr. Kieran Allen, School of Sociology, UCD.