RNU Demand Immediate Implementation Of Maghberry Agreement

national | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Wednesday August 10, 2011 21:10 by RNU PRO - Republican Network for Unity (RNU)

REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Cogus Spokesperson, CIARAN CUNNINGHAM has demanded the full implementation of last August’s Maghaberry Agreement.

REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Cogus Spokesperson, CIARAN CUNNINGHAM has demanded the full implementation of last August’s Maghaberry Agreement.

Mr Cunningham said; ‘It's the 40th anniversary of Internment, which is hard to believe. The British and Stormont Governments regimes believed the imprisonment of scores of Irishmen would end resistance against British rule in Ireland. How wrong they were.

What is even harder to believe is that forty years later, we continue to have Political Prisoners inside opposed to imperialist rule. For the past six weeks, Republican Prisoners in Maghaberry have been on Dirty Protest because of the failure of the Prison Service and Stormont Minister, David Ford to implement last August’s Agreement.

The POWs’ have been refused legal and family visits, telephones, Mass, exercise and education. The situation there has become so intolerable that Cogus and Cabhair Prisoners embarked on a 48 hour Hunger-Strike’.  As they have said before, they are not looking for special treatment, just the implementation of the 12th August agreement. 

Mr Cunningham concluded; ‘Given the growing crisis in Maghaberry Gaol, RNU again demand that the Agreement is implemented before the situation deepens. We also demand an immediate meeting with Mr. Ford before the protest escalates further and seek a resolution’.