BURY HIM IN AN AVALANCHE OF POSTCARDS AND LETTERS STUART HIGHWAY - JAILED

Anarchist and veteran human rights and social justice campaigner Stuart Highway was sentenced on Wednesday the 19th October 2005 to 8 months (suspended after 3 months) jail as a result of a confrontation that occurred between Northern Territory police and members of the Network Against Prohibition (NAP) at a community Smoke-In that was held in Darwin in October 2002 to highlight and oppose the Martin Labor government's 'drug house' legislation.

Under this legislation, the NT Police have the power to affix a 1.2 meter high fluorescent green sign to your house or front fence declaring your home is a 'drug premises'. Â No charges have to be laid and no criminal convictions have to be recorded to label your home a drug premise by the NT Police.

Four members of NAP - Michael Barry, Nicolette Burrows, Gary Meyerhoff and Stuart Highway were indicted on charges of unlawful damage to police vehicles. Barry and Burrows were sentenced to 5 months wholly suspended; Meyerhoff has pneumonia and will not appear in court this week. Mr. Stuart Highway was found guilty of unlawful damage to a government car (broken windscreen) and sentenced to 8 months jail.

Stuart is a well known political activist in Darwin. He has been involved in campaigns against the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, anti-electoral campaigns and the Martin and Howard government's draconian laws. He has become a thorn in the NT government's side and has been sentenced to jail to intimidate and silence him and other activists.

WHAT CAN YOU DO!!

The single most important thing STUART needs is contact from the outside. WE ENCOURAGE all our readers to send postcards and messages of support to Stuart while he is in jail. A few minutes of your time and a postage stamp, is all it takes. Try to send a postcard or letter to him every week. Bury Stuart in an avalanche of postcards and letters; let the NT government and the NT prison authorities know that Stuart Highway has many friends from around the world on the outside. Knowing the 'whole world is watching' is the best protection that Stuart can enjoy while in jail. WRITE TO HIM TODAY:

Mr. STUART HIGHWAY
PRISONER - BERRIMAH JAIL,
BERRIMAH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,
P.O. BOX 1407, DARWIN, NT 0801, AUSTRALIA.
Tel: 08 8922 0111 (Prison phone)


Newshawk: http://www.napnt.org
Pubdate: Sun, 30 October 2005
Source: Anarchist Age Weekly Review
Author: Joseph Toscano
Website: http://anarcistmedia.org/weekly.html
Email: anarchistage@yahoo.com