From: dlloyd-AT-garnet.berkeley.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Update on Roisin McAliskey (fwd)



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To all on the list:

This is an update on Roisin McAliskey's situation.  Since she has been
given a slightly less draconian regime, it seems that public outcry,
including your own, may have had some effect.  Please keep up the good
work.

David Lloyd


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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 20:36:33 -0600
From: Dr Alan Cheney <chihowa-AT-ix.netcom.com>
To: chihowa-AT-ix.netcom.com
Subject: Update on Roisin McAliskey

Dear Friends,

Tomorrow, 25 year old Roisin McAliskey will spend her 135th day in jail, still
   without charge.  It is now almost a certainty now that she will give birth
   prematurely to her baby while being held without bail.  With that thought in
   mind, I thought you might find the article below interesting.  It can be
   found at http://www.irishnews.com/010497/news4.html

Please consider calling or mailing the British and German embassies.  If you
   have lost the numbers, let me know and I will be very happy to send them to
   you.  Please pass this on to interested parties.

*****Article from the April 1st Irish News (Belfast):


'McAliskey to learn German in Holloway '

By Michael O'Toole

PREGNANT prisoner Roisin McAliskey is learning German in Holloway Prison, her
father confirmed yesterday.

Michael McAliskey said it was "logical" for his daughter to learn the language.

She is currently fighting an attempt to extradite her to Germany, where
   authorities want to question her about an IRA mortar attack on a British
   army base last July.

No one was injured in the attack on the Osnabruck base.

Yesterday Mr McAliskey said his daughter, who is eight months pregnant, was
   offered a range of classes after her security status in London's Holloway
   prison was reduced from high risk category A to normal category A status
   earlier this month.

Mr McAliskey said: "They offered her different classes and one of them is a
   German
course.

"I think it would be the logical thing for her to do.

"She would need it if she had to go there one day."

Mr McAliskey said his daughter was "hanging in there" in prison.

He also said that one other inmate in the prison's antenatal unit - a pregnant
   British
soldier - refused to speak to his daughter.

He said the woman was quoted in an English paper as saying that Ms McAliskey was
guilty - even though she has not been charged with any offence.




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