Burma protester bears the cross
Disillusioned kid | 14.04.2001 10:50
JAMES MAWDSLEY, the human rights campaigner freed from prison in Burma last year, yesterday appealed for help for the world’s oppressed at a re-enactment of the Crucifixion.
Mr Mawdsley, 28, released in October after serving 14 months of a 17-year prison sentence for distributing pro-democracy leaflets, was taking part in the Good Friday ceremony in Central London. He told a congregation in Westminster: “Like our Lord, people are suffering, and suffering unto death . . . Like our Lord, other people are dying alone, abandoned, betrayed and others are dying innocent of any crime.”
He helped Yohannes Hailelul, 18, from St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College, in West London, to carry a cross through Westminster. It is the tenth year of the ecumenical ceremony, which was raising money for a homelessness shelter and Jubilee Campaign, a human rights body.
Mr Mawdsley, 28, released in October after serving 14 months of a 17-year prison sentence for distributing pro-democracy leaflets, was taking part in the Good Friday ceremony in Central London. He told a congregation in Westminster: “Like our Lord, people are suffering, and suffering unto death . . . Like our Lord, other people are dying alone, abandoned, betrayed and others are dying innocent of any crime.”
He helped Yohannes Hailelul, 18, from St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College, in West London, to carry a cross through Westminster. It is the tenth year of the ecumenical ceremony, which was raising money for a homelessness shelter and Jubilee Campaign, a human rights body.
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