DEFEND HEATHER NICHOLSON and SHAC 7 ANIMAL ACTIVISTS.

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Saturday, 02 January 2010 at 00:22




RE :ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF HEATHER NICHOLSON's 11 YEAR JAIL SENTENCE AND LIFETIME DENIAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS-PERMANENT BAN ON SPEAKING ON ANY ANIMAL RIGHTS ISSUE.. JANUARY 7th



To :Brian Gibbons

Human Rights Strategy Group and ALL WELSH ASSEMBLY MEMBERS



Following recent headline news of the 11 year imprisonment of a Chinese democratic activist on charges of sedition ,today, Xmas Day.

I would like to bring to your attention the issue of prisoners of conscience in the UK's prisons.The following is a short summary of the sentences and orders against these individuals.

I voice to you my urgent concern in the light of this nation's concern for freedom of speech elsewhere, I would invite your attention to review the issues here raised. Particularly the plight of Greg Avery, Dan Amos, and Heather Nicholson all animal friends
The Swansea connection? Heather Nicholson's family reside in Swansea ,she and her parents being lifelong Vegans.Have a walk along the Swansea Beach any Xmas Day and view the number of dog lovers including beagles and then kindly read on.

To commemorate Welsh and other activist prisoners of conscience on January 7th 2009, committed to jail.
*SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty)

On the 21st January 7 2009 'SHAC' activists from the first show trial were sentenced. Heather, 11 years, Gregg and Natasha 9 years (it would have been nearly 14 if they hadn't plead guilty), Gavin 8 years, Dan Wadham 5 years, Gerrah 4 years and Dan Amos 4 years.

Added to their sentences, Gregg, Natasha, and Heather received the most extreme gagging ASBO's ever issued in the UK, they will never be able to publicly campaign or talk about vivisection in UK ever again. On pain of 5 years in prison. They can't write public letters even whilst in prison about vivisection or Huntigdon Life Science. Dan A, Dan W, Gavin and Gerrah have 5 year banning ASBO's.

Our parents and relatives would have fought gallantly in the two World Wars to embrace the system of freedom of conscience, which this case patently reverses, despite judicial invective that obfuscated their case.

I urge you as the as Human Rights strategist for the Welsh Legislative Assembly to highlight these issues with your comments interventions and human rights concerns .I am not a campaigner but this case has sickened me to the point of determinedly voicing my concerns to bring these issues to light.

We seem to be in a dark age of cynical and demented shadows, urging draconian measures against those who would speak out successfully.
May I remind you that President Havel of the Czech Republic is a former prisoner of conscience having spent 15 years in jail at the hands of a manipulative ideology.He currently campaigns in Europe and beyond ,to remind us of the need for social justice and human rights, irrespective of the defining status quo.

Heather and other prisoners of conscience may be reached here:
http://www.arprisoners.org/heather-nicholson/

Perhaps their most defining characteristic like that of inspired dissidents elsewhere is that they are educated, literate, comprehensive and ethical in their systemic appraisal of those who oppose them .As the Chinese and the UK managers of the status quo have found, such commonality of ideas are the most dangerously held crime of all ,howsoever disparagingly represented by their opponents otherwise.

Our Human Rights are not a matter of administrative arrangement limited by their sanctioned invective. By not demonstrably invoking their use, we resign ourselves to peripheral sentimental irelevance, under a climate of sanctioned fear to successfully oppose.
The issue of freedom to promote and express (given the 'Witchfinder General ' banning orders ) is now at stake, whatever else the animal activists were lampooned and imprisoned for.

I urge your investigative powers to correspond adequately to promote the human rights of Heather Nicholson of Swansea and her colleagues who at the moment fester in jail and to promote their early release by thorough appeal ,including any appeal to the European Court of Human Rights for any redress.
Supporting information here freely accessible on the web:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Nicholson
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=446443813&blogId=465928174

Sincerely,





Swansea