A.O.H. demands Marian Price’s release

Posted by Jim on February 27, 2013

To : Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland
From: Brendan Moore National President: Ancient Order of Hibernians USA

February 26, 2013

The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), America’s largest Irish organization, adds it voice to the scores of other organizations, elected officials and citizens from throughout the world in calling for the immediate release of Marian Price. The AOH is a staunch supporter of the full implementation of the Good Friday agreement and believes that all people in the North of Ireland have the right to peace, truth and justice.

As members of the Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland you have the ability to address once and for all the severe injustice that the current legal system has administered to Ms. Price. Based on criteria related to humanitarian and justice grounds there is no justification to deny her parole request. If you are what your board claims to be “an independent body” you need to exhibit that independence and grant parole to Ms. Price.

Ms Price’s medical condition is well known; she is gravely ill, frail, weak and of no possible danger to anyone. Based on your own judgment criteria that if at ‘the end of the hearing, … the panel is satisfied that the level of risk the prisoner poses is no more than minimal, then it is required by law to direct that the prisoner should be released” The board of commissioners needs to go no further than its own established criteria and therefore solely for humanitarian reasons release Ms. Price immediately.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America request that you grant parole to Ms. Marian Price.