Email us at [email protected] with your support for this statement. Ask your workmates, fellow students, neighbours, community group etc to sign it as well.

You can also ring the Italian Embassy on 020 7312 2200 or e-mail them at [email protected]. 

Nicola Doherty and Richard Moth, two Globalise Resistance members, have been arrested by Italian Police after the Genoa protests at the weekend. Both work with adults with severe disabilities and are members of Unison trade union. Nicola was on her first demonstration. Neither were involved in any violence during the protests in Genoa. Both are being held incommunicado, with no accesss to legal support or contact with their friends and families. Both recieved considerable injuries while they were being arrested.

To claim that NINETY people were all guilty of the same offences while they slept is ludicrous.

We demand that their lawyers and friends be allowed access to the two prisoners immediately. We demand these two peaceful protesters are released immediately. If any weapons were indeed found at the HQ, their is nothing to suggest Nicola and Richard were in possession of them.

Arrests and oppression will not answer the case put by anti-globalisation protesters.

Initial Signatories:

John Pilger, journalist; Tony Benn, former MP; Louise Christian, lawyer; Paul Foot, journalist; George Monbiot, writer; Noreena Hertz, writer ; Debora Sannazzaro, lawyer Italy; Penny Kemp, Chair Green Party of England and Wales; Mike Marqusee, Socialist Alliance; Liz Davis, Former Labour Party NEC; Mark Steel, journalist ; Pietro Pierangeli, journalist, Italy; Niaz Alam, Trustee War on Want; Guy Taylor, Globalise Resistance; Candy Udwin, University College London Hospital UNISON; Hector San Roman, Center for Assistance to the Indigenous People; Rev Paul Nicolson; Sophie Gosselin, ATTAC (France); Julien Ottavi, ATTAC (France); Dr Sarah Lister, academic; James Hitch, writer; James Murray-White, writer; Eleanor Adair, artist; Peter Dressel, Mixer; Eddie Salmon, comedy writer; Michael Pountney, Managing Editor, Mac Keith Press; Jim Wolfreys, Lecturer in French, King's College London; Samy Djavidnia, satellite engineer, Spain; Inigo Ballester, programmer, Spain; Luca Vernaccini, engineer, Italy; B�nyamin Esen, Writer (from Turkey- Europe); Becky Moss, Bhopal Group for Information and Action; Mustafa Turus, Chairman of the Committee to Defend Political Prisoners; Tony Savaas Welsh Socialist Alliance; Roland Rance, Secretary, Waltham Forest Trades Council (personal capacity); Andrew McGettigan MSF rep, Community Housing Association (Camden, London); Seth Harman, Branch Secretary MSF London Housing Branch 037; Matt Saywell (Youth Officer GMB Holborn Branch); Jake Rollin, Branch Secretary LGU UNISON; Sam Birnie, Branch Chair LGU UNISON; Bill Lehm UNISON Rep UCL Branch; Chris Welch Sheffield Hallam Unison Branch, UNISON, Sheffield, UK; Maggie Falshaw, AUT membership secretary Queen Mary University of London.; Kaye Heyes, Development Worker, TUC Learning Services; Brenda O'Mahony, Nottingham City Unison; Scott McAusland, union rep - Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union; Terry Parker - UNISON member; Ian Malcolm-Walker, Trade Unionist and Disability Activist; Peter Clibbon, Engineer; Gavin Barber, Oxford Brookes University UNISON; Gaia Dean, stock broker; Joanne Doyle, [email protected]; Jon Tennison, GMB (TUC employee); Jane Galloway (TUC employee); Paul Flynn TGWU, St Mungo Association employee; James Latta, Screenwriter; Lorraine Latta, Administrative Assistant; R. Munoz, Kingston College of Technology; Ana Larcher-Carvalho, Imperial College PhD student; Jon Timbrell, student ; Petter Everts�n, student; Andrew Wynne, Student; Donna Baillie; Steve Hopkins; Jonjo Neale, student; John Joseet, social worker

Please add your name and return to: Globalise Resistance, PO Box 29689, London, E8 2XR or email [email protected]