Civil Liberties - new material (42)
01 January 2001
bristle. No 7 (Winter) 2000/1, pp25, £0.70.
This Bristol-based magazine is "committed to create an alternative media" by providing "a space and information for local groups and activists". Themes covered are therefore diverse and not only of local interest. They range from biological weapons research in Bristol and anti-fascist news to information about the private contractor Sodexho which has taken on the government's voucher scheme, the EU Nice Summit and the visit of the Civil Rights Caravan to Bristol and dispersed asylum seekers' communities. This issue includes a prison special, which provides information on the growing number of inmates, on increasing resistance to the prison system, a campaigns update, an interview with an inmate who was politically involved whilst in prison and gives first-hand insights into harassment and intimidation in prison institutions. Available from: bristle, Box 25, 82 Colston Street, Bristol BS1 5BB, bristle@network.com, www.bristle.co.uk.
ICCL News, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, vol 12 issue 3, ISSN 0791-3761, December 2000, pp15.
Articles focus on: recent controversies over the appointment of members to the newly established Human Rights Commission and plans by the Law Society for an "interpretative incorporation" of the European Convention of Human Rights into domestic law, rather than incorporating it at a constitutional level, which could leave appellants to the Irish Constitution on human rights grounds with contradictory rulings. Further covers the Mental Health Bill 1999, the shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara, the Refugee Act 1996 and the European dimension to Irish Anti-racist struggles. Available from: Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Dominick Court, 40-41 Lower Dominick St., Dublin 1, Ireland, Tel: 00353-1-878-3136, Fax: 00353-1-878-3109, iccl@iol.ie.
"Beaten up, fitted up, locked up. Mark Barnsley and the `Pomoma incident': a miscarriage of justice". Justice for Mark Barnsley campaign, pp45, £2.
Mark Barnsley is in his seventh year of a prison sentence after defending himself when attacked by a gang of 15 drunken students who were armed with knives and bottles in June 1994. Mark, who was with a friend and his baby, was badly beaten and fled the scene only to be pursued and attacked again; during this second attack he resisted and when the police arrived Mark was the only person arrested. Despite being the victim of an assault at his trial he was convicted of wounding two of his assailants with intent and unlawfully wounding another three. He was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Mark, who has consistently protested his innocence, has spent most of his time in high or maximum security prisons, including long periods in segregation and has been frequently "ghosted" (moved from one prison to another). Last April, at Long Lartin prison, Mark alleges that he and six other prisoners, were beaten by prison officers - they have since been charged with "barricading a cell". Since then Mark has been transferred to HMP Frankland, where he is among the general prison population and not segregated; he is also closer to his family and friends in the north of England. Messages of support: Mark Barnsley WA2897, HMP Frankland, Brasside, Durham DH1 5YD. The Justice for Mark Barnsley Campaign can be contacted at PO Box 381, Huddersfield HD1 3XX; email: barnsleycampaign@hotmail.com; website: www.appleonline.net/markbarnsley/mark.html
Parliamentary debates
Domestic Violence Commons 8.11.00 cols 45WH-66WH
Freedom of Information Bill Lords 14.11.00 cols 134-158; 173-266
Freedom of Information Bill Lords 22.11.00 cols 817-852
Freedom of Information Bill Commons 27.11.00 cols 718-782
Poverty and Social Exclusion Commons 30.11.00 cols 281WH-326WH
Private Security Industry Bill [H.L.] Lords 18.12.00 cols 574-602
Human Rights (Joint Committee) Commons 15.1.01 cols 146-167
Radioactive Discharges (River Tamar) Commons 17.1.01 cols 118WH-124WH
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