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PTA challenges

01 May 1994

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Two PTA excludees, Gerry Adams and Kevin McQuillan, were granted leave to challenge the exclusion orders which prevent them from coming to Britain. Sinn Fein president Adams claims that the right to move freely between Britain and Northern Ireland is untrammelled and unconditional since the Treaty on European Union came into force in November 1993. McQuillan, a former IRSP executive member excluded from Great Britain since 1987, was allowed to come to the Old Bailey in December to give evidence after being witness summonsed, but was excluded again immediately afterwards. He has been the subject of two UFF assassination attempts, in 1991 and March 1994, and claims that the order condemns him to death at the hands of loyalist terrorists and so breaches his right to life and to freedom from inhuman treatment under the European Convention of Human Rights.

Independent 4 & 6.5.94.

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