ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS IN AMERICA RESOLUTION FOR MARIAN PRICE
WHEREAS Marian Price has been imprisoned for more than a year without a trial, conviction or sentence on the basis of secret evidence neither she nor her attorneys have been allowed to see.
WHEREAS – Two judges have ordered her release on bail only to be overruled by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a British Cabinet Minister, who ordered her imprisoned.
WHEREAS – There is grave concern for Marian Price’s health with prison medical staff and specialists stating that she should be in a hospital or at home with her family.
WHEREAS – She has been moved to a secure hospital unit against the advice of the specialist who was treating her.
WHEREAS – Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic and Labor Party, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Brehon Law Society, British/Irish Rights Watch, and the Committee for the Administration of Justice have all stated that that she should be released.
WHEREAS – National President Seamus Boyle and National Vice President Brendan Moore have issued an Official stance on the Marian Price case stating in part “the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America believes that the incarceration without charges of Marian Price is a return to the discredited time when British Security Forces would intern Irish Republicans on a whim and with no evidence.”
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED – that the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America asks that this seriously ill woman be released immediately to her physicians and her family.
