Prisoners Votes Case aired on the radio on Iain Dale's radio show

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John Hirst, Jailhouselawyer, appears twice within the first hour.

Association of Prisoners Constitution

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ConVerse response

ConVerse response

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Mark Leech - The Truth

Mark Leech - The Truth

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Ministry of Justice censors prisoner for fear of offending Osama Bin Laden

Ministry of Justice censors prisoner for fear of offending Osama Bin Laden



Cartoon censored from UK prisoners magazine Inside Time for upsetting Muslim prisoners, 2009

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From Hull Daily Mail (late edition) In Brief (not online)

Prison paper stopped

Hull: Almost 50,000 copies of a prisoner newspaper have been pulled from jails across the country after Muslim clerics complained about an article written by a Hull inmate.

Andy Thackwray wrote the latest installment of Angry Andy in the Inside Time newspaper.

It was a satrical piece that called the international swine flu outbreaks as a botched Al-Qaeda terrorism plot - and carried with it cartoon of Osama Bin Laden with swine flu.

However, after several complaints were made by Imams from across the country, the Director General of the National Offender Management Service, Phil Wheatley, asked for the edition to be pulled.

Committee on Petitions

Committee on Petitions

Committee on Petitions
The Chairman
Brussels
CL/nmh[02-COM.PETI(2009)D/29813]

Mr John Hirst
Association of Prisoners
5 Adderbury Crescent
Adderbury Grove
UK - HU5 1AT Hull
United Kingdom

308742 04.06.2009

Subject: Petition Nr.0268/2009 (reference to be quoted in all correspondence)

Dear Mr Hirst,

I would like to inform you that the Committee on Petitions has begun its examination of your petition. The Committee considers the petition to be admissable since the subjectmatter falls within the sphere of activities of the European Union.

The committee felt that the issues raised in your petition should be submitted, also, to the Committee in the European Parliament within whose terms of reference it falls and decided as a result to refer it to the Committee on Constitutional Affairs for information.

Please note that consideration of your petition by the European Parliament has been concluded and the file is now closed.

Yours sincerely,
Marcin Libicki
Chairman of the Committee on Petitions