Further charges dropped against Gary Donnelly - Political Policing part of ongoing attack on Republicans

The exposure of direct political interference by British policing through a range of spurious charges being dropped against Derry man Gary Donnelly tells us political policing hasn’t went away. Indeed it is intensified.

Gary Donnelly was arrested following the Easter Commemoration in Derry in 2012 and spurious charges were brought against him. 

He is continuously harassed, intimidated and beaten and such incidents usually conclude with these trumped up charges in the full knowledge there is no evidence to substantiate them.

They go through a process with conditions applied to him that he cannot carry out political work and this is dragged out for months so that the accumulative effect he cannot do any political activity for years.

It is clear the agenda is to curtail his political work as there is no substance to the charges and when they get to court they are dropped.

Mr Francis Mackey National Chairman said, “The 32 County Sovereignty Movement will not be deterred by these blatant attacks on our members and on our policies. It is evident by these attacks that our position is based on the correct analysis on the violation of Irish National Sovereignty. 

Our position doesn’t fit comfortably with British institutions and their illegal interference in Irish affairs and like generations before us the only answer is to politically police it.

It doesn’t matter if it was the RIC, RUC or PSNI  the results are the same.

Attacks on our members are an attack on all republicans and must be exposed. The Gary Donnelly case epitomises political policing as such attacks are effectively attacking the legitimacy of the republican position” concluded Mr Mackey.