Irish Freedom Committee Action Request

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR RÓISÍN MCALISKEY

CONTACT:
Irish Freedom Committee®
www.irishfreedomcommittee.net
Saoirse (at) irishfreedomcommittee.net

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR RÓISÍN MCALISKEY
Chicago, IL, June 4, 2007

The Irish Freedom Committee® joins the Coalition of Irish Republican Women, and activists across the United States and Internationally, in a Day of Action TUESDAY JUNE 5TH against the impending deportation of Róisín McAliskey from the North of Ireland to Germany.

We appeal to all of our Members, supporters and concerned activists please take a few moments TOMORROW TUESDAY JUNE 5TH to make a phone call, write an email, or send a fax to the British Consulate in their area or the British Government (see contact info below) and make the case that Róisín McAliskey NOT be extradited to Germany on the basis of eleven-year-old evidence which was deemed insufficient at the time.

The announcement below from the Coalition of Irish Republican Women contains TALKING POINTS for your phone call and a SAMPLE LETTER for your emails and faxes. Please, tomorrow, MAKE ONE CALL or SEND ONE MESSAGE – you can help save a family and prevent an innocent woman’s life from being destroyed.

For more information go to
www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/IFC_INFO/EVENTS/roisin_mcaliskey_pickets_june12007.htm
Or
tinyurl.com/39u48c (same page smaller url)

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ANNOUNCEMENT

From: The Coalition of Irish Republican Women
www.myspace.com/womenofireland

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR RÓISÍN MCALISKEY
TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 2007

The Coalition of Irish Republican Women and the Irish Freedom Committee request you to join us on Tuesday, June 5th to call, email, fax and/or hand deliver a letter to your nearest British consulate or embassy. The Irish Freedom Committee has a page with all the contact information here:
www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/ACTION_ALERTS/british_consulate_addresses_.htm

Some of the phone numbers may go to a “menu,” so if you call and do not get a live person press the following:

Atlanta: 5
Boston: 4
Chicago: 1
Houston: 5
L.A. : should pick up, if not, call 877-514-1233
San Francisco : 4
New York: should pick up, if not, call 212-745-9391

The British embassy in Washington may be phoned at (202) 588-7800.
For British consulates and embassies outside of the United States, please see
www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front

Also, If you haven't already contacted, them, please communicate the same request by email to the NIO and prime minister through the
contact forms on their respective webpages:

www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page821.asp
www.nio.gov.uk/index/contact-us/enquiry-form.htm

We thank everyone who has already sent e-mails, but we also ask that you join us once again for a big push aimed at the consulates/embassies. This Day of Action is of vital importance to exert some last minute pressure on the British government prior to Róisín’s extradition hearing on Wednesday, June 6th. Please help!!

Points to raise in your correspondence:

· Róisín McAliskey has always maintained her innocence, and substantial evidence supports her claim, including an alibi and a principal prosecution witness’s inability to identify her a few months after the attack.

· Britain has already determined that there is insufficient evidence to try Róisín McAliskey for the Osnabruck attack.

· Almost 11 years have elapsed since the Osnabruck attack, and the passage of time makes it a great deal more difficult to obtain a fair
trial and defend against the charges, as witnesses are more difficult to locate and may have died or become incapacitated or too infirm to testify, witnesses’ memories naturally will have dimmed or been artificially shaped by intervening publicity, and physical evidence may have deteriorated or be unavailable for testing by the defense.

Sample text :

Honorable Consul General, <or ambassador>

I am writing to oppose the extradition of Róisín McAliskey to Germany
and to ask that you inform your government of this communication.

Ms. McAliskey has always denied nvolvement in the Osnabruck attack and substantial evidence supports her innocence. She was in Ireland at the time of the attack. Within a few months of the attack, one of the chief prosecution witnesses, when interviewed on German television, was unable to identify Ms. McAliskey as a participant.
Consistent with this state of evidence, the British government previously determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Ms.
McAliskey in Britain. It rejected a request by Germany to take over the prosecution.

In addition, the passage of nearly 11 years since the attack has made it unlikely Ms. McAliskey can obtain a fair trial and defend herself against the charges. Witnesses will have become difficult to locate, and some may have died or become incapacitated. Even available
witnesses’ memories will have dimmed substantially or been artificially shaped by intervening publicity about the case. Physical evidence may have deteriorated or be unavailable for testing
by the defense.

I ask that you relay my letter to your government.

Sincerely,

(YOUR NAME/ADDRESS)

Thank you from
The Irish Freedom Committee
www.irishfreedomcommittee.net
and The Coalition of Irish Republican Women
www.myspace.com/womenofireland

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