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11th December 2001

Message from Jenny Gaiawyn in Cornton Vale

Motion to Scottish Parliament

Below is a message from Jenny Gaiawyn dated 5th December from Corton Vale womens prison.

Jenny is in a cell on her own (because she is a non-smoker) and she is able to have her books and papers for study. A friend at university is sending her lecture notes. Jenny has decided not to appeal the outrageous sentence because if she was released on appeal she might end up going back in at a time even more disruptive to her studies.

See press release of court appearence and joint MSP and MEP letter to the press.

 

Photo taken when anti-war activists entered and blockaded British Military Joint Forces HQ at Northwood, London. Prayers were said for the innocent past, present and future victims of the Bush and Blair administrations throughout the world.

Thank-you to everyone who has sent me letters and cards of support. Your words keep my spirit strong.

I am sorry if I don’t reply to you all, I have limited access to stamps as they won’t let me have the ones people send in. The only things I can get through the post are letters, cards, money and books.

I am doing well in here, I think about how in many countries I would have been conveniently "disappeared" a long time ago for my beliefs. That is one of the reasons I feel we all have to speak out, there are many who are forced to be silent that for us to choose silence would be criminal and immoral.

I am glad people share my outrage at the disgraceful behaviour shown in court last week. I’m glad that people are acting on their outrage by contacting the MSP, MP, MEP and local paper. We should all be raising our voices at the arrogance displayed by so many individuals within the criminal justice "system" in their response to our peaceful actions.

I hope my time in here, and the stand myself and others have made in the name of peace inspires others to overcome their unjustified fear of the system.

I send my love,respect, strength and hugs to you all out there.

Wishing you all the best.

In peace

Jenny


05 December 2001

MOTION TO THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

This Parliament condemns the disgraceful three-month prison sentence handed down to Jenny Gaiawyn on 29 November by Sheriff Morag Galbraith for a breach of the peace at the February blockade of Faslane nuclear base earlier this year; considers this sentence an outrageous attack on this young woman’s human right to protest peacefully, which is a fundamental human right enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights and as such should be upheld in law; further considers the sentence a scandalous reflection of the arbitrariness of Scottish law and calls on the Justice Minister to set up an inquiry into the inconsistencies of sentencing in Scottish courts, which have seen people both acquitted and fined or even sentenced to a prison term for the same "crime" of breach of the peace.

Tommy Sheridan MSP


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