Treatment of Colin Duffy Will Not Be Tolerated
32 County Sovereignty Movement
12/10/2010
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement will not tolerate the treatment of Colin Duffy by the prison regime in Maghaberry jail and we urge all republican, socialist and progressive thinkers to refuse to tolerate it also.
Colin has been the victim of a number of serious physical and sexual assaults by prison officers on his way to and from court proceedings.
The prisoners and the prison service had reached an agreement last month to end a protest by republican POW’s that included an end to all strip searching. Since reaching the agreement a number of prisoners have been forcibly stripped and beaten.
It is clear that this is not the result of teething problems by prison officers settling into the new system but a deliberate policy of the NIPS to break prisoners unity and morale.
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement urge the prison service to honour their agreements before this situation gets out of control and somebody is seriously hurt on either side.
