26.2.04

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PSNI/RUC Occupies POW's Family Homes

Marian Price and Martin Mulholland,
Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association • 25 February 2004

"This morning at 10:00 am the PSNI/RUC, heavily armed and in riot gear, moved into the Brandywell area of Derry and occupied two homes belonging to family members of republican POW Seamus Doherty. These occupations were carried out under the auspices of house searches. The RUC claimed to be carrying out the raids in connection with an IRPWA protest at the Prison Service headquarters in Dundonald House in Belfast last summer. During the raid the RUC ransacked both houses . . ."


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