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Open Letter to US Ambassador in Dublin

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Thursday January 21, 2016 18:21author by Justin Morahan Report this post to the editors

Jailing of Mary-Anne Grady for taking pictures of anti-drone protest

Mary-Anne Grady Flores a grandmother from upper State New York was jailed for six months and started her sentence on Tuesday last for taking pictures of an anti-drone protest. The letter below has been sent to the US Ambassador along with the Democracy Now account of the jailing

Dear Ambassador

I have just received notification that grandmother Mary Anne Grady Flores was sent to prison on Tuesday to serve a six month sentence in the United States for having photographed a non-violent protest against drones at a point where she believed she was entitled to take pictures of the protest.

Before posting news of this amazing prison sentence on social media, I decided to contact you to register my astonishment and to protest most vigorously about the sentence. I have forwarded to you the report and shameful picture that I received courtesy of Democracy Now.

As a human rights activist, it becomes necessary for me to complain about human rights abuses in countries around the world, including the USA. The outrageous sentence imposed on Mrs Grady Flores may not rank in kind with the recent executions in Saudi Arabia, or the horrors of Isis, or the threatened executions in Egypt, or indeed the continued incarceration of prisoners, including their torture, in Guantanamo Bay.

Nevertheless her incarceration is a human rights abuse. The right to protest is sacred, especially when it is non-violent. To send anyone to prison for taking pictures of a peaceful, non-violent protest is outrageous. Mary Anne was trying to prevent the killing of innocents far from the United States by US drones. How does this make her a criminal?

I call on you Ambassador to complain against this outrage to your President and to urge him to show moral support for Mrs Grady Flores. In October 1960, Presidential candidate John F Kennedy showed moral support for the jailed Martin Luther King in Atlanta by phoning Mrs Coretta King. Two days later he was released.

Mary Anne Grady Flores and Jonathan Wallace should be released forthwith. So too should all such peaceful protestors who are in prison in the United States because of peaceful civil disobedience, including many Catholic Workers and members of other non-violent anti-war protest groups. Many of these are in delicate health and many have passed away after ill health in inhuman prison conditions left them debilitated and physically but not morally weak.

As we face the prospect of "more of the same" or worse after the US elections, it is time for President Obama to show the same concern for the rights of non-violent protestors as he has recently and properly shown for the black people whose lives have been snuffed out by gun-toting police or the citizens including children murdered by gun-toting fanatics on the streets of the USA. It is also absolutely important that he stop the drone killings and recede from State violence himself.

With best personal wishes

Justin Morahan

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Democracy Now website     Justin Morahan    Thu Jan 21, 2016 18:37 
   Congratulations     Sean Crudden    Thu Jan 21, 2016 20:56 
   But not EXACTLY wat she was sent to jail for     Mike Novack    Fri Jan 22, 2016 14:14 
   the "protection order" -the poor man!     Justin Morahan    Sat Jan 23, 2016 19:55 
   Total misunderstanding?     Mike Novack    Sun Jan 24, 2016 02:43 
   When you go to jail. . .     Justin Morahan    Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:26 
   BTW ---- redirect letter     Mike Novack    Mon Jan 25, 2016 13:48 
   Taking your point..     Justn Morahan    Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:31 
   letters remind authorities of injustices     O'Sullivan    Mon Feb 01, 2016 14:05 
 10   Latest update     Justn Morahan    Wed Mar 09, 2016 12:20 


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