1st Annual
International Day of Solidarity
With Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War

Saturday December 3, 2005

Saturday December 3rd 2005 has been designated by human rights organizations and political prisoners' support groups worldwide as the first ever International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. Solidarity and awareness events will take place in dozens of cities across the United States and in countries around the world.

The Chicago Unit of the Irish Freedom Committee will mark this historic event with pickets at the British and Irish Consulates, 400 N. Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago. Our pickets will call attention to the unacceptable conditions under which Irish Republican Political Prisoners are being held, and will call for their immediate release.

Irish Republican Political Prisoners are charged and sentenced in juryless, three-judge "Diplock", or Special, courts where justice is a stranger, and where the unchallenged word of a single police officer can result in a many years' sentence for "membership to a proscribed organization". These political prisoners are held in some of the worst conditions in Europe, and are frequently denied medical care, fresh air, free association amongst themselves, regular contact with the outside world, and visits with their families and loved ones. This policy of extreme isolation of political prisoners by the British and Irish
governments is purely an institutionalized form of torture designed to dehumanize individuals and criminalize their political beliefs.

Please join us!

PROTEST at BRITISH and IRISH CONSULATES
SATURDAY DECMBER 3, 2005
12:00 Noon
400 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE
CHICAGO IL


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