PRESS CONFERENCE CALLED TO DISCUSS WAR AND CRIMINALISING OF COMMUNITIES

[EMBARGO UNTIL 7.30 a.m. WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH 2003]

PRESS CONFERENCE

10 a.m., WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH 2003
COMMITTEE ROOM 4, SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT,
GEORGE IV BRIDGE, EDINBURGH


STOP THE WAR -
STOP THE CRIMINALISING OF COMMUNITIES!

NATIONAL MARCH ON THE UNITED STATES CONSULATE AND SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ON SATURDAY 29 MARCH,
CALLED BY EDINBURGH STOP THE WAR COALITION & THE SCOTTISH COALITION FOR JUSTICE NOT WAR

ASSEMBLE 2 p.m. WATERLOO PLACE, EDINBURGH

Speakers Invited to Press Conference:
John McAllion MSP; Tommy Sheridan MSP; Aamer Anwar - Lawyer; Suspected Algerian 'Terrorist'; Wife of detained suspected 'terrorist'; Sana Sadollah, Iraqi Kurd; Muslim Association of Britain; Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition; S.T.U.C; Coalition for Justice not War.
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For more information, contact Aamer Anwar on 07980 443 807 or 0141 554 0999, Tommy Sheridan on 07887 795075 or Hugh Kerr on 0131 348 5631/07713 063647