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10 September 1998 Edition

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Back issue: Stop the show trial, free Gerry Adams

This year has seen a massive increase in harassment against republican members of the nationalist community in the occupied six-counties of Ireland. After nine years British troops have failed to defeat Irish resistance to partition. Curfews, internments, torture, summary execution and special courts have failed to defeat the Irish Republican Army which continues its war of national liberation.

But late last year and continuing into this year the British government turned their attention against Sinn Fein (which they had nominally legalised in 1973) and ``Republican News''. There have been scores of raids on members' homes, offices have been ransacked and files and machinery confiscated. This leaflet, which will deal mainly with the case against Gerry Adams, is the first part of a major campaign, involving the distribution of thousands of posters and leaflets to defend Sinn Fein and stop the show trials.

The second part of the campaign, to be launched soon, will focus on the jailings and repression against Sinn Fein members and the attempted suppression of ``Republican News''.

An Phoblacht 9 September 1978


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