None of the seven has previous convictions, and all arrests were on minor public order charges, yet they have been jailed for a week.

This incident is part of an ongoing escalation of police, government and security tactics against the campaign which in the last two months has seen a local fisherman’s boat sunk by armed men in the middle of the night and a prominent local campaigner hospitalised for two days after a beating.

Friends of those arrested are calling a solidarity noise demo at the Irish Embassy in London at 1pm 1st July (tomorrow). Bring banners/musical instruments/pots and pans/anything to embarrass the Irish government which is throwing human rights out of the wondow in favour of corporate greed.

Map showing location of Irish Embassy:  http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=528506&Y=179549&A=Y&Z=110

Main report on jailing of protesters:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/433476.html

Report from Indymedia Ireland:  http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92934

Shell to Sea campaign – background on the long-running fight against the Corrib gas pipeline:  http://www.corribsos.com/