Northern Ireland - new material (27)
01 December 1997
Just News Committee on the Administration of Justice. Vol. 12, nos. 4 & 5 (April-May) 1997. Articles on ten miscarriages of justice headed by the Casement Park Three; brutality following what appears to have been an undercover operation carried out by members of the SAS in Crossmaglen in April; treatment of detainees in Holding [interrogation] centres and proposals on a Bill of Rights. Available from CAJ 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast.
Caught on camera Helen Rumbelow. Police review 2.5.97. pp18-20. Brief examination of the "ultra-high speed" (under 4 seconds) Automatic Number Plate Recognition system used to check car number plates in the City of London's "ring of steel" against records on the Police National Computer.
Confess or be extradited Seth Linder. Observer 8.6.97. Important article on Roisin McAliskey who was held as a high- security prisoner in Holloway prison for 6 months while pregnant. It includes excerpts from her prison journal which documents how the threat of extradition and imprisonment was used in an attempt to coerce a false statement from her. Her supporters say her prison conditions are appalling. The truth is a very different story Ian Burrell. Independent 15.5.97
Absolutely disgraceful piece on unconvicted prisoner Roisin McAliskey based on "documents obtained by the Independent" that purport to show that contrary to all other reports - including those elsewhere in the Independent - the pregnant high-security prisoner received generous and "unprecedented" treatment while imprisoned. Raises the question of which government department the misnamed Independent got its brief from.
Shoot-to-kill in Coalisland Mick Naughton. An Phoblacht Republican News 3.4.97, p5. Report on British undercover operation in Coalisland in March in which a youth was wounded.
AP/RN is available from 58 Parnell Square Dublin 1 Ireland.
Parliamentary debates
Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations) Commons 19.3.97. cols
996-1010 Prevention of Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Commons 19.3.97. cols
1011-1029 Public Order (Northern Ireland) Commons 19.3.97. cols. 1030-1048 Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations etc) Act 1996 (Revival of Section 3) Order 1997 Lords 22.5.97. cols. 504-521 Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations) Commons 2.6.97. cols 135-155 Northern Ireland Commons 12.6.97. cols. 1321-1332 Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1966 (Amendment) Order 1997 Lords 16.6.97. cols. 1092-1100