Irish Republican Prisoners
Support Group
The POWs have two demands to end their protest in Maghaberry:
1. Freedom of Association with an end to controlled movement.
2. End to degrading and humiliating Strip Searches.
T
he Irish Republican
Prisoners Support
Group welcomes the
resolution of the con-
flict in Maghaberry. The prison-
ers demands had been con-
ceded and that there will be a
phasing out of controlled move-
ment and random strip search-
ing has been abolished.
The IRPS held a 20-strong picket
of the Ministry of Justice, Petty
France, London on 7 August
2010. The picket involved com-
rades from Socialist Fight, the
Revolutionary Communist Group
(Fight Racism, Fight Imperial-
ism!), Workers Power, the Irish
Political Status Committee and
the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
campaign. “End the torture in
Maghaberry, political status
now!” and “Political Status for
political prisoners” were the
Irish Republican Prisoners Support Group's picket of the Minis-
try of Justice, Petty France, London on 7 August 2010
Secretary; Gerry Downing PO Box 59188, London, NW2 9LJ
slogans chanted on the picket to
passing sightseeing tourist buses
and those emerging from St
James’s Park station.
The political and ethnic diversity
of the picket showed that the
struggles of Irish political prison-
ers has powerful resonance not
only among serious revolution- Mumia Abu-Jamal campaign
ary socialists but also among supporters at the picket
those campaigning internation-
ally for justice for the oppressed.
It was therefore enormously
heartening to see the Mumia
Abu-Jamal supporters and Abdul
Omer there.
Special mention must go to Terri
Gavin. Not only did she pay for
Abdul Omer Moshin, victim-
the new IRPSG banner but she
ized sacked Unite Convenor of
struggled on her Zimmer frame
Sovereign Buses in North West
to stand on the picket line and
London addressing the picket
shout her slogans in support of
Irish POWs, as she has done for
over half a century.
Disabled 79 year old Terri
Gavin, who paid for the new
IRPSG banner and who has
campaigned for Irish POWs
since the early 50s, holds her
placard: "political status for
political prisoners" at the picket