Workers' Party to picket US Embassy tomorrow

national | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Friday October 14, 2005 15:36 by Workers' Party wpi at indigo dot ie 23 Hill Street, Dublin 1. (01) 8740716

The Workers' Party will tomorrow picket the United States Embassy in Dublin in protest against the US demand for the extradition to the USA of Party President Sean Garland.

WORKERS' PARTY TO PICKET US EMBASSY OVER EXTRADITION DEMAND FOR SEAN GARLAND

EVENT: Picket at US Embassy, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

TIME & DATE: 1.30pm on Saturday 15th October 2005

The Workers' Party will mount a demonstration tomorrow (Saturday 15th) at
the United States Embassy in Dublin in protest at the arrest and demands for
extradition of Party President Sean Garland to the US.

Sean Garland is an Irish citizen and is President of the Workers' Party. He
has neither been charged, or even questioned in relation to any criminal
charge in the Republic, in Northern Ireland or in the UK. However, despite
this, at 10pm on 7th October Sean Garland was arrested by the PSNI
(accompanied by US agents) and an attempt was made to extradite him to the
United States despite the fact he has not been charged with any crime in the
USA either.

Sean Garland is entitled to the protection of the Irish constitution and the
Irish judicial system. He will not get a fair trial in the USA. Sean
Garland is a life-long socialist and socialist organiser. In the land of
Bush and Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld no socialist or left wing activist will
get a fair trial. Sean has been a national and international peace activist
against US military and economic foreign policy. He has opposed US foreign
policy from Vietnam to Angola, from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, from the
present war in Iraq to the US attempt to overthrow President Chavez in
Venezuela. He has no hope of a fair trial.

Sean Garland is 71 years old and in ill-health. He has angina and serious
diabetes. How will he survive "interrogation" by the CIA or incarceration
in Guantanamo Bay? Extradition to the USA would be a death sentence for Sean
Garland.

The Workers' Party today held a demonstration at the US Consulate in Belfast
and tomorrow will also mount pickets in the centre of Cork and Waterford.

The Workers' Party, Tel: (01) 8740716

www.seangarland.org