14 June 2001 Edition
Irish support for Turkish hunger strikers
Some 30 people held a black flag picket in O'Connell Street, Dublin last weekend in solidarity with the prisoners in Turkey who are protesting against the inhuman jail conditions in high-security `F-Type' prisons. Already, 23 prisoners, men and women, have died on the hunger strike since last December, when the Turkish army and police stormed the prisons, killing 28 prisoners.
Turkey has more than 10,000 political prisoners. They are revolutionaries, trade unionists, human rights activists, democrats, artists, writers, Kurdish patriots, socialists. The picket was organised by a campaign group ``Solidarity with hunger strikers in Turkey'', which is urging people to protest to the Turkish government and Embassy in Dublin at the treatment of the prisoners. (The campaign can be contacted at [email protected].)
Hunger strike actors show solidarity
Turkish hunger strikers are to benifit from a two-night performance of a H-Block hunger strike play in Belfast this Thursday and Friday, 14 and 15 June. Diary of a Hunger Strike/Dialann Ocrais by Peter Sheridan, Dublin playwright and film maker, is currently on a 46-stop national tour of the country.
The drama group Aisling Ghéar breaks its schedule next Thursday and Friday, however, to allow Belfast audiences their last opportunity to see the play that packed out the Waterfont Hall on 7 May.
The Cultúrlann on the Falls Road is the venue and money from these two performances will be presented to representatives of the Turkish hunger strikers.
Turkey has more than 10,000 political prisoners. They are revolutionaries, trade unionists, human rights activists, democrats, artists, writers, Kurdish patriots, socialists. The picket was organised by a campaign group ``Solidarity with hunger strikers in Turkey'', which is urging people to protest to the Turkish government and Embassy in Dublin at the treatment of the prisoners. (The campaign can be contacted at [email protected].)
Hunger strike actors show solidarity
Turkish hunger strikers are to benifit from a two-night performance of a H-Block hunger strike play in Belfast this Thursday and Friday, 14 and 15 June. Diary of a Hunger Strike/Dialann Ocrais by Peter Sheridan, Dublin playwright and film maker, is currently on a 46-stop national tour of the country.
The drama group Aisling Ghéar breaks its schedule next Thursday and Friday, however, to allow Belfast audiences their last opportunity to see the play that packed out the Waterfont Hall on 7 May.
The Cultúrlann on the Falls Road is the venue and money from these two performances will be presented to representatives of the Turkish hunger strikers.