Stop This show frial
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›y Dale Ackroyd The campaign to defend the Bradford 12 is taking off. The '12' are 12 Bradford Asian youth charged with making 38 petrol bombs and storing them for use against the police.
But the group defending the prisoners, the July the 11th Action Committee, have pointed out a police conspiracy. No one has yet seen these petrol bombs. All the police evidence is based on 'confessions'. Confessions that the prisoners denounce as forced. They were not allowed to see a solicitor until half an hour before they came up in court, by that time most of them had been held for over 36 hours.
the police are trying to 'make an example' of the 12, because these are 12 militant youths. They are charged with conspiracy to endanger life and property and cause grievA115 hodily harm. This VUN charge carries a maximum sentence of life.
We must stop this political show trial!
Many of the prisoners were some of the most active campaigners for women like Anwar Ditta, whose kids were kept out of Britain for years by the Home Office. They fought deportations, they fought fascism and now Anwar Ditta has pledged her support for them.
How do the police view this case?
Well, three applications for bail, week after week, have been refused. Just before their arrests some of these youths were working on a case.
Three racists set fire to a shop owned by an Asian man. He only just escaped with his life: The police caught the three, and charged them with conspiracy to murder. They had no problem getting bail.
So pleading with racist police won't get ing anywhere. sleep soundly in her We need mass action.
Three pickets of the law bed. courts have been organised, with up to 200 demonstrators present.
Telegrams are bombarding the Home Secretary and West Yorkshire's police chief. And 800 people went to the largest ever black-organised public meeting in Bradtord.
But there's more to come. We're organising i national demonstration . And so we did. for Bradford and we* re printing 4,000 leaflets. racism and fascism' And members of the NLWYM are fighting for labour movement organisations to fight what is a state attack on the rights of black people and the whole of the working class.
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