SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
Press Release: 21/09/03

Scottish Socialist Party MSP Rosie Kane will fly to Dublin on Monday on a double mission in relation to the jailed Socialist Party member of the Irish parliament Joe Higgins and the former Dungavel detainee Mercy Ikolo.
Higgins, who has been jailed along with a Socialist Party councillor in relation to protests against a tax on household refuse, had taken up the case of Mercy Ikolo and her daughter the former Dungavel detainees who have been living with Rosie Kane since being released on bail.
Percie Ikolo was born in Ireland.
Rosie said;
“Joe Higgins had taken up Mercy’s case but now that he has been jailed for standing up against a tax that hits the poor, I’m going over to Dublin to take solidarity messages from the Socialists in the Scottish Parliament to our comrades in Ireland.
With Joe now in the jail for taking a principled stand, I need to raise Mercy’s voice in the Dáil.
“As a white woman with a passport I have the freedom to travel and protest that Mercy Ikolo does not have.”