Causeway Coast & Glens Council asked by neighbouring council to support Palestine hunger strikers
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council has received correspondence from a neighbouring council, asking that it supports hunger striking Palestine Action activists.
During January’s full council meeting members were presented with correspondence from Derry City and Strabane District Council’s Mayor, Sinn Féin councillor Ruairi McHugh, highlighting an approved motion from November last year.
The motion read: “That in line with council’s corporate position of opposition to the British Government’s authoritarian proscription of Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organisation, council is concerned regarding the decision by political prisoners imprisoned as a result of Palestine Action activism to embark on a hunger strike.
“Council expresses our solidarity with the prisoners and their families; council further agrees to a cross-party and Independent delegation to meet with prisoner families and representatives to assist efforts to bring this to a resolution.
“Council will circulate the motion to all council’s across Ireland and Britain for their consideration.”