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Minister plays fast and loose with facts (Free article)
27 January 2005
Mícheál Mac Donncha of Sinn Féin's Céad Bliain Committee, takes issue with Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche TD. The Sunday Independent of 16 January carried an article by Roche attacking Sinn Féin for marking its centenary. We carry below extracts from that article. Mac Donncha's article was submitted for publication by the Sunday…
Human rights stoned to death in Iran (Free article)
27 January 2005
"The Iranian nation is a prisoner of a regime which... extracts the blood of victims before execution for wounded Revolutionary Guards. The Iranian nation is a prisoner to a regime whose Revolutionary Guards rape virgin girls before execution". THESE were just two of a long list of barbaric human rights abuses carried out by the Iranian…
The real criminals (Free article)
27 January 2005
Thirty years ago, the British Government formulated what was one of their most ingenious strategies, that of "Ulsterisation, Normalisation and Criminalisation". Today, this strategy is still at work and has been refined to undermine the democratic mandate of Sinn Féin, by attempting to criminalise Sinn Féin on one hand and normalise the impasse in…
Opposition rally in Paris (Free article)
27 January 2005
Up to 30,000 Iranian exiles are due to flock to Paris on 10 February to protest against the human rights record of the fundamentalist regime in Tehran and the torture of political prisoners. The organisers, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is calling for international support for the rally.
Gerry Kelly to undertake a series of engagements in the United States (Free article)
27 January 2005
Senior Sinn Féin Negotiator Gerry Kelly is in the United States for a week-long series of meetings. Kelly will meet with members of Congress, representatives of the State Department and engage with Irish America.
Taking on Thatcher - Talking to Arthur Scargill 20 years after the Miners' Strike (Free article)
27 January 2005
From 1979, the Thatcher Government had been planning the privatisation of the British coal industry. The Coal Industry Act (1980) set financial targets so high that they could only be met by closing 'uneconomic' collieries. The Act was intended to make the industry more attractive to private investors.
MEP attends World Social Forum in Brazil (Free article)
27 January 2005
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún this week travelled to Brazil to participate in the World Social Forum at Porto Allegre, Brazil. Speaking before her departure, de Brún said the World Social Forum presents the opportunity to "map out an alternative world, one concerned with prioritising social justice and human rights protections".
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