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A former Irish prisoner of war, who had been detained in
the infamous H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison for his republican activities
and hopes of a united Ireland, is being held without bond in the Denver
County Jail by the BICE (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
formerly the INS).
Ciaran Ferry, an Irish citizen and former member of the IRA, was
detained by INS agents as he attended a scheduled "green card"
interview on January 30th, 2003 with his wife, Heaven Ferry. Heaven, an
American citizen, is shocked by her husband's arrest. "How can they
arrest him when he's married to a US citizen and has a pending
application?"
Mr. Ferry is being held in solitary confinement and has been
strip-searched routinely after visits from his wife and family, even
though he has agreed to abide by prison rules. He has not seen daylight
since February 26, 2003 and is allowed out of his cell to exercise for
one hour every other day. Mr. Ferry has protested this ill treatment to
the prison and also has asked his legal team to take action on his
behalf. "The conditions of his detention are clearly disproportionate
to the charges pending against him," claims Jeff Joseph, the
immigration attorney representing Mr. Ferry.
The official charge against Mr. Ferry involves overstaying his visa.
This charge is unfounded because at the time of his application, Mr.
Ferry was granted work authorization by the Department of Homeland
Security and permitted to stay in the country. Mr. Ferry's legal team
has responded to these invalid charges by filing a Petition for a Writ
of Habeas Corpus in U.S. District Court for the State of Colorado,
arguing that his detention and removal are unconstitutional.
A status conference regarding Mr. Ferry's habeas petition is scheduled
for May 23rd, 2003.
Mr. Ferry was imprisoned by British authorities in March of 1993 after
two weapons were found in a car in which he was a passenger. He was
held for two years before being tried without a jury under the Diplock
court system, and sentenced to 22 years in Long Kesh, a special prison
in the north of Ireland opened in 1976 solely to accommodate Republican
and Loyalist prisoners sentenced for political offenses. He spent seven
and a half years in the H-Blocks before being released in the summer of
2000 under the Good Friday Accord, brokered by Britain and Ireland with
the active involvement of U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator
George Mitchell.
Ciaran and Heaven Ferry were married in Belfast in August of 2000, and
lived there immediately following their wedding. In September of that
year, police found Ciaran's personal details and home address on
Loyalist death lists, and the couple was given a government grant to
secure their flat against gun and bomb attack. Only a few months later,
during a visit to Heaven's family in Colorado, the couple decided to
stay in the United States to provide a safer life for the baby they had
learned they were expecting. Mr. Ferry firmly believes that it would be
dangerous to return to Ireland, and to do so would put the lives of his
wife and daughter in jeopardy.
Mr. Ferry has requested an asylum hearing with the immigration judge
based on a well-founded fear of returning to Ireland, and a hearing on
this matter is scheduled for late August.
Jeff Joseph, counsel for Ciaran Ferry asks, "Can anyone ignore the
situation of Mr. Ferry? If forced to return to Belfast, Mr. Ferry, his
United States Citizen wife and 2-year-old United States Citizen
daughter will be grave danger. In the spirit of the Good Friday
Accords, we ask Attorney General John Ashcroft and President Bush to
terminate deportation proceedings against Mr. Ferry and grant him his
permanent residence in the United States."
For more information on the Ciaran Ferry case, see the website link listed above.
SUPPORT THE HARKIN FAMILY
Paul Harkin is a native of Northern Ireland now living in Chicago with his wife, Cathy and two children, Ciaran and Declan. He grew up amidst the difficulties that confront the Catholic minority of the occupied counties. Paul was 16 in 1968 when the war between the nationalist community and the British Crown forces escalated into the "Troubles". Harassment, beating and intimidation became a part of his daily life. Paul became involved in the struggle for civil rights, for equal opportunities, for basic human dignity. In 1975 he was arrested and convicted in the British Diplock courts. He spent the next 6 years in Long Kesh POW camp. He was released in 1981. Paul came to America in 1987 to visit his brother and met Cathy Geraghty, an American citizen in Chicago. Both of their two children were born in Chicago. Paul is now faced with deportation.
We need your support to stop the deportation of Paul and his family.
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Current Events
"INAC Submission to the Helsinki Commission Hearing on Policing in N. Ireland"
(4 May 2004)
Chair: Congressman Chris Smith
Washington, DC
5 May 2004
Why a Public Inquiry into The Murder of Patrick
Finucane Is Essential For Peace and Justice in the
north of Ireland based upon “The Cory Report” Into
State Collusion
_________
"I don't think the British ever expected in their
worst nightmares that Judge Cory would recommend four
public inquiries. I think they are running around like
headless chickens trying to do a damage limitation
exercise." - Jane Winter, director of British Irish
Rights Watch
___________
A. Broken Commitments
On Friday December 19, 2003, Tony Blair officially
refused to publish the Cory Report on some of the most
controversial murders of Britain's 30-year "dirty
war", despite the fact that the Dublin government
disclosed its part of the Cory Report as promised on
the 18th of December 2003.
Both governments spent two months studying the report
submitted to them by retired Canadian high court Judge
Peter Cory on eight killings which the security forces
on both sides of the border are suspected of
assisting.
Both governments committed to publishing their
sections of the report at a joint meeting at Weston
Park in 2002 in an attempt to revive the stalled peace
process. They promised to publish their reports
simultaneously. But after Downing Street delayed
twice, the Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, published
alone and agreed to the public inquiries that Cory
recommended.
Judge Cory himself said, "Failure to publish the
report would be a breech of the Weston Park agreement
of both governments [for which the report was
commissioned] and could have unfortunate consequences
for the peace process."
When the British government continued its refusal to
disclose the Cory Report’s recommendations, Cory felt
morally bound to tell the four families of his
conclusion that all four cases warranted full, public
inquiries.
B. Judge Cory’s Recommendation for Inquiry Rejected
Judge Cory’s recommendation to the British government
was that public inquiries should be quickly commenced
into alleged state collusion in the murders of Pat
Finucane, Rosemary Nelson, Robert Hamill, and Billy
Wright.
Pat Finucane, a Belfast defense lawyer, was shot 14
times as he ate Sunday dinner with his family in 1989.
The human rights lawyer, Rosemary Nelson, was killed
by a car bomb outside her home in 1999 after death
threats from the RUC. Robert Hamill was kicked to
death by a loyalist mob in Portadown two years
earlier, while RUC officers sat idly by in a Land
Rover, yards away. The fourth murder is the
assassination the same year of Billy Wright, aka "King
Rat", founder of the paramilitary Loyalist Volunteer
Force, who was murdered while in state custody in the
Long Kesh prison by an INLA gunman.
What Tony Blair did was accede to public inquiries
into the Nelson, Hamill, and Wright murders, but
reneged on his government’s promise to follow through
on Judge Cory’s recommendation to initiate a public
inquiry into the murder of Patrick Finucane.
C. The Excuse & the Reaction
The British government contend that since they are
involved in a court prosecution in the Finucane case,
they can’t sanction a public inquiry because it would
interfere with the course of justice.
This is nonsense. They had no problem, for example,
in endorsing the International Monitoring Commission’s
recent decision to penalize Sinn Fein over unproved
allegations while legal proceedings were underway.
They had no problem suspending the N. I. Assembly over
allegations of a republican spy ring within Stormont
while that case was before the courts. The fact that
the charges were subsequently dropped, didn’t bring
the Assembly back.
After hearing the British response, Mr. Cory said that
a public inquiry could be held in conjunction with
court proceedings without affecting a British criminal
prosecution, because the case would be before a single
judge without a jury.
Judge Cory dealt in his report with the issue of
prioritizing going ahead with a prosecution vis-a-vis
an initiation of a public Finucane inquiry: “If
criminal prosecutions are to proceed the practical
effect might be to delay the public inquiry for two
years. The Finucane family will be devastated. A
large part of the Northern Ireland community will be
frustrated. Myths and misconceptions will proliferate
and hopes of peace and understanding will be eroded.
This may be one of the rare situations where a public
inquiry will be of greater benefit to a community than
prosecutions.”
The decision by the British government to delay an
inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane was criticised
by a former senior United Nations representative,
Param Cumaraswamy, who first called for in inquiry
into the killing in 1998, said the recommendations of
the Cory Report should be followed immediately.
Mr Cumaraswamy declared further delay was
unreasonable: "Justice delayed is justice denied. A
great deal of injustice would be done to the victims
in this whole thing. The family of Pat Finucane have
had this crusade going on for the last 14 years or so
for this initial inquiry."
The US State Department has said it shares the concern
that continuing criminal investigations into the
Finnucane murder will further delay the start of a
full public inquiry.
D. PSNI Chief Against All Inquiries
However, not surprisingly, the Chief Constable of the
Northern Ireland Police Service [PSNI], Hugh Orde,
said public inquiries into controversial murders
risked undermining confidence in his force. He also
contends that with 1,800 unsolved killings to distract
them, the PSNI will be distracted from effective
policing in the present. He is refusing to cooperate
with the Coronor in ten inquests in Co. Tyrone alone
into State killings of citizens or collusion with
loyalists to kill citizens.
Our view is that human and civil rights abusers in the
RUC who are presently serving in the PSNI should be
revealed and removed. Those who either participated
in the killing of citizens or facilitated the killing
of citizens should be prosecuted.
There can be no new beginning to policing, no
confidence in the PSNI from the nationalist community,
as long as human rights abusers and those who colluded
to murder, many now at command posiitons in PSNI, are
still on the job.
E. Damage Control
The truth is the British government would prefer to go
ahead with the Hamill, Nelson and Wright inquiries, if
it has to, but stonewall any Finucane inquiry:
• It is willing to sacrifice a few “rotten apples” in
the RUC in the Hamill case as scapegoats;
• Or to give up several “renegade” prison warders
acting on their own to collude to murder Billy Wright;
• Or whatever damage control they can manage with
regards the murder of Rosemary Nelson. Perhaps, a few
sacrificial lambs among the RUC will be offered up for
minor offenses of intimidation of a lawyer.
F. Why the Finucane Murder is Different
The motivation for British suppression of a public
inquiry into the Finucane murder is that the Finucane
case is not just an example of the British
government’s policy of collusion to murder its own
citizens, but it is a blueprint of how their policy
worked, who actually did the work on the ground, who
was in charge, and who were the architects. This can
be supported and detailed from the British agents on
the street in the murder squads, through the various
intelligence arms of both the British army and police,
and through to the British government itself.
Fourteen years of John Stevens’ inquiries [most of his
investigations are unpublished reports] alone into the
murder of Pat Finucane lays the foundations for a
devastating public inquiry that would uncover British
government, military, and police intelligence systemic
collusion that goes all the way to 10 Downing St.
Judge Cory’s assessment adds to this weight of
evidence.
G. Sir John Stevens Concluded: The State Colluded to
Kill Citizens
John Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan
[London] Police Service, held three government
sanctioned investigations into allegations of
collusion. All were handed over to the Department of
Public Prosecutions [DPP].
None were ever published.
Recently, his third report [Stevens 3], a sparse 19
page summary which concentrated on the Finucane
murder, was released to the public. Nevertheless, it
is a powerful indictment of Britain’s “dirty war,”
collusion, and its efforts to cover its tracks, even
from the UK’s top police officer and his investigation
team.
Stevens has been at it for fourteen years, obstructed
at every turn. At a critical point, they even burned
down his headquarters.
Stevens’ introduction to his “Stevens 3” Summary
Report: “My Enquiries have highlighted collusion, the
willful failure to keep records, the absence of
accountability, the withholding of intelligence and
evidence,and the extreme of agents being involved in
murder. These serious acts and omissions have meant
that people have been killed or seriously injured.
This report will also detail how my Enquiries have
been obstructed.”
The public has the right to know the whole truth
contained in these reports.
H. Judge Cory’s Summary of Collusive Acts in the
Murder of Pat Finucane
Cory found, using the sources at his disposal,
evidence that he concluded warrants a public inquiry
into collusion by British forces and agents by three
arms of the British military and police in the murder
of Pat Finucane. His Summary Conclusion:
“Some of the acts summarized [below] are, in and of
themselves, capable of constituting acts of collusion.
Further, the documents and statements I have referred
to in this review have a cumulative effect.
Considered together, they clearly indicate to me that
there is strong evidence that collusive acts were
committed by the [British] Army FRU, the RUC Special
Branch, and the Security Service. I am satisfied that
there is a need for a public inquiry.”
1. Force Research Unit [FRU] of British Army
Intelligence
Issue #1: “Did FRU have advance knowledge that
Patrick Finucane was being targeted by the UDA?”
Cory’s conclusion: “The evidence I have seen warrants
the holding of a public inquiry on this issue.”
Issue #2: Evidence supports that FRU “provided
information to Nelson [their agent high within the UDA
in charge of targeting victims and facilitating the
murders] that facilitated his targeting activities.”
Cory’s conclusion: “The providing of information to
Nelson in these circumstances may be seen as evidence
of collusive behavior that had the potential to
facilitate the deadly operations planned by the UDA.”
Issue #3: Failure to restrain Nelson’s criminal
activities.
Cory’s conclusion: “The documents I have examined
disclose that Army handlers and their superiors
turned a blind eye to the criminal acts of Nelson. In
doing this they established a pattern of behavior that
could be characterized as collusive.”
Issue #4: “The evidence given by the CO FRU [Soldier
‘J’] at Nelson’s trial could only be described as
misleading.”
Cory’s conclusion: “The troubling evidence given at
Nelson’s trial, coupled with FRU’s knowledge of his
criminal activities, is part of the cumulative picture
that should be examined in determining whether FRU
acted collusively in the murder of Patrick Finucane.”
Judge Cory’s decision regarding FRU collusion in the
murder of Pat Finucane: “The documents either in
themselves or taken cumulatively can be taken to
indicate that FRU committed acts of collusion.
Further, there is strong if, in some instances,
conflicting documentary evidence that FRU committed
collusive acts. Only a public inquiry can resolve the
conflict.”
2. The Security Service [SS]
Issue #1: In 1981, SS “was aware that the UDA had
plans to kill Patrick Finucane and that the threat was
both very real and very imminent.”
Issue #2: In 1985, SS “was aware that a leading
loyalist paramilitary considered Patrick Finucane to
be a priority target.”
Issue #3: “In December 1988, just seven weeks before
the murder, the SS received information from an agent
that there were plans afoot to kill various targets,
and that the UDA had singled out Patrick Finucane for
special attention.”
Judge Cory’s decision regarding Security Service
collusion in the murder of Pat Finucane: “The
apparent failure of the SS to suggest to the RUC
Special Branch that action should be taken on these
threats might, itself, be capable of constituting
collusive action. At the very least, these matters
add to the cumulative pattern of conduct demonstrated
by the relevant Government agencies and should be
considered in the context of a public inquiry.”
3. RUC Special Branch
Issue #1: Failure to Act on Known Threats
Conclusion: “The protection of agent security was
seen as more important than saving the life of a
person who faced a serious and imminent threat.”
Issue #2: Failure to Follow up on the Browning
pistol that was used to kill Pat Finucane
Conclusion: “The failure to act on information
received in 1989, both before and after the Finucane
murder, is indicative of collusion and should be the
subject of inquiry at a public hearing.”
Issue #3: Failure to report or act upon intelligence
coming from FRU.
Conclusion: “The failure to issue warnings to persons
targeted by the UDA often led to tragic consequences.
This is indicative of attitudes within RUC Special
Branch. It also constitutes a pattern of conduct that
could be equated with collusive behavior.”
Issue #4: This area was redacted [blacked out] by
the British government. No reason given.
Issue #5: Withholding information from the
investigating officer in the Finucane case.
His conclusion: The failure by the RUC Special
Branch to relay “any information concerning the role
of Nelson in FRU, and the role of Stobie [undercover
agent who admitted being involved in the Finucane
murder] in RUC Special Branch, did much to frustrate
his investigation... This too could be found to be a
collusive act.
I. Why a Public Inquiry into the Finucane Murder Must
Take Place
Judge Cory indicated in his final report several
reasons for “the importance and necessity of holding a
public inquiry in the [Finucane] case.” Here are
some:
1. The Weston Park Agreement
Cory: “The Finucane case was specifically chosen as
one of the six cases to be reviewed during the Weston
Park negotiations, which were an integral part of the
implementation phase of the Good Friday Agreement
[GFA] ... failure to hold a public inquiry as quickly
as it is reasonably possible to do so could be seen as
a denial of that agreement, which appears to have been
an important and integral part of the peace process.”
2. To bolster Public Confidence
Cory: “... if as I have found, there is evidence
which could be found to constitute collusion then the
community at large would, undoubtedly, like to see the
issue resolved quickly. This is essential if the
public confidence in the police, the army and the
administration of justice is to be restored.”
3. Time since the murder & loss of witnesses
Cory: “Important potential witnesses such as Brian
Nelson and William Stobie have died or been murdered.
Memories are fading fast.”
4. Lasting peace
Cory: “The GFA and Weston Park Agreement, which set
out the selected cases as an integral part of the
Accord, must have been taken by both Governments to be
a significant step in the peace process. Six cases
were chosen and the Agreement was negotiated and
entered into on the basis that, if evidence which
could constitute collusion was found, a public inquiry
would be be held. In those cases where such evidence
has been found, the holding of a public inquiry as
quickly as is reasonably possible is a small price to
pay for a lasting peace.”
J. The Requirements of a Public Inquiry:
• It must be Independent of the British Army,
RUC/PSNI, and the British Government, run by an
independent commissioner or panel.
• It must have full power to subpoena witnesses and
documents and all powers associated with an
independent, public inquiry.
• It must have the resources to engage investigators
and others to carry out the tasks deemed essential to
the tribunal.
• The hearings must be held in PUBLIC and the
findings/recommendations must be committed to writing
and made PUBLIC.
"Sectarian incidents and attacks in the north of Ireland - August through October 2003"
(13 October 2003)
The following are sectarian incidents and attacks in the north of Ireland compiled from Andersonstown News,Belfast Telegraph,BBC, BBC radio and television news, BBC online, Radio Foyle, Local community workers,Derry Journal,Derry News,Irish News,Irish Times,Independent Television News, Pat Finucane Center and the Springhill Community Center:
AUGUST 2003
A Sinn Fein councilor has said an attack on his home in west Belfast was a loyalist attempt to silence his condemnations by killing him and his family.
Nationalist children have been warned not to pick up anything they find in the street after a group of primary school pupils discovered a cache of pipe bombs in County Armagh yesterday. This warning was issued after three children could have been killed by pipe bombs they found while playing in Portadown.
A Catholic teenager in Glengormley was confronted by a masked and armed man.
Loyalists at a west Belfast interface may be using slings to launch petrol bomb attacks across a peace wall.
There were hopes of an end to recent violence at a Belfast interface last night as nationalist and loyalist community leaders held face-to-face talks.
The LVF issued death threats to people at a welfare office in Downpatrick and intimidated people from entering and leaving the building.
An Amagh family’s car was attacked with stones by loyalists as they returned from watching an all Ireland football match in Dublin.
A Catholic man from Co Derry whose family home was gutted in a sectarian arson attack has said he feels "dejected" by the latest act of destruction.
The Catholic Derry family of five who were targeted in a pipe-bomb attack have left the city.
Statistics reveal summer sectarian attacks along Derry's only west bank interface have fallen dramatically.
Two Catholic youths required hospital treatment after they were attacked by a loyalist gang.
SEPTEMBER 2003
A Catholic woman is recovering after a loyalist mob threatened to lay siege to her north Belfast home.
A loyalist pipe bomb attached to the gates of Holy Cross Primary School disrupted the first day of school with renewed fears that the sectarian campaign of violence which took place in 2001 would resume. The attack took place against the backdrop of sectarian campaign of intimidation by loyalists targeting Catholic homes in nearby Deerpark Rd.
Two terrified Catholic families were the latest to flee their north Belfast homes as loyalists stepped up their campaign of intimidation.
A school bus carrying Catholic school children was attacked by stone throwers as it traveled through north Belfast.
A woman whose two brothers fled at the height of a bloody loyalist feud escaped injury yesterday in an early morning bomb attack.
PSNI sources named a former loyalist prisoner as the new UDA 'brigadier' in north Belfast and accused him of orchestrating recent sectarian attacks against Catholic families.
Sinn Fein has accused loyalists of trying to raise tensions in south Antrim after a car owned by a Catholic family was destroyed in a petrol bomb attack.
Catholic residents of a north Belfast flashpoint were forced out of their homes due to sectarian violence.
A Catholic widower whose wife's grave has been desecrated by loyalist thugs for the third time in 18 months is considering having her body exhumed and moved to another cemetery.
Sectarian graffiti was painted on the doors of a Catholic church in County Antrim which had regularly been targeted by loyalists.
A Catholic priest received a loyalist death threat the night before he was scheduled to conduct a prayer service in a public cemetery.
A number of Catholic graves were desecrated at St. Patrick’s Church cemetery. Eight graves had headstones broken and flowers and wreaths strewn around the grounds.
Loyalists painted graffiti on the front of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Glengormley. The slogan KAT (Kill all Tags) was painted across the doors of the church.
Loyalist paramilitaries are blamed for a sectarian attack on one of the most sought after apartment blocks in Belfast.
Protestant clergymen rallied round Catholic parish priest Father Dan Whyte after he was warned that his life was in danger. The priest, living under the shadow of a loyalist death threat, has said, "His heart was lifted" by the support he has received from across the community.
Loyalists targeted two Catholic families in a drive-by attack in north Belfast.
Large chunks of tarmac was hurled through the windows of two homes in Nationalist Lower Deerpark Road.
Six Catholic schools were at the center of bomb scares yesterday which were later declared hoaxes. Five were in Belfast, the sixth in Larne.
Loyalists smashed windows and the front door of a home in Stoneyford. UVF slogans were sprayed on a wall.
A 20-year-old man and his father were attacked by loyalists at a greyhound-racing track near Lisburn.
A Catholic family with 2 young children escaped serious injury after loyalists threw rocks through the back window of their car as they drove along Market Hill Rd. in Cookstown.
A 10-day-old child escaped injury after the homes of four Catholic families in Newtownabbey were petrol bombed.
Nationalists children playing near their south Belfast homes yesterday discovered a suspected pipe bomb which was at the center of a security alert.
A Stewartstown family escaped serious injury after they were attacked by loyalists in Cookstown because their car had a Tyrone GAA flag in its rear window.
A bomb alert at the doors of two County Antrim Catholic schools forced more than a thousand children to spend the day at home.
In a separate incident bomb disposal experts made safe a pipe-bomb-type device left at the gates of a Catholic school in north Belfast.
The UVF-linked Red Hand Commando orchestrated protests and rioting against a Catholic prayer service at Carnmoney Cemetery, Co Antrim.
Loyalist paramilitaries were blamed for an attack on four cleaning workers removing sectarian graffiti from an apartment block in south Belfast.
An 11-year-old Catholic girl told of her terrifying ordeal as loyalists torched teachers' cars yards from packed classrooms.
Politicians and education chiefs expressed revulsion at the latest sectarian attack on a Catholic school in north Belfast.
An attack was made on a Catholic school in North Belfast. Six cars belonging to the staff were destroyed. This is the second attack on the school in 20 months.
Two Catholic teenage boys were attacked by loyalists in West Belfast.
A Catholic man was struck on the head with a hatchet by a gang of loyalists as he walked home along Carrick Hill.
OCTOBER 1, to October 7, 2003
Tensions in north Belfast were heightened after an attempt was made to burn down a Catholic primary school.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast has condemned the recent sectarian attacks on schools and called on the government to act against those responsible: "For too long, children and their schools have faced violent acts and intimidation."
A Catholic family was targeted by loyalist gunmen for flying a Gaelic football flag at their Coleraine home; they were victims of a previous attack days earlier.
A 21-year-old north Belfast Catholic man’s skull was fractured in a sectarian assault.
The house of a Protestant widow was attacked after she provided shelter to a terrified Catholic man who was being chased by a loyalist gang in Larne.
A Catholic family have been forced to flee their home on a predominantly Protestant estate in County Antrim after it was attacked by up to three masked men.
A Catholic family was forced to leave their home after it came under fire from loyalists for the second time in a week.
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