Stuart moved back into M block
In a sudden move by the authorities, long-time drug law-reform and human rights activist and NAPNT member Stuart Highway has been moved from the maximum security area of the Darwin Prison and he is back in the medium security M block.
Stuart is concerned about the move to M block, after previously staging a peaceful sit-down protest in the visitor’s area of the prison to protest the conditions in M block. Stuart reports that M block is overcrowded and that the conditions are atrocious.
He no longer has his own cell and he is back in a dorm with other prisoners.
Prison staff are still stonewalling Stuart with regards to the special diet he has requested (on the advice of his doctor).
With regards to Stuart’s appeal against conviction/sentence, the NT Legal Aid Commission are still assessing the merits of an appeal but at this rate it looks like Stuart may serve the full three-month sentence. Legal Aid has not been very helpful.
NAPNT are now moving into phase 2 of our ‘Free Stuart Highway’ campaign and we have written to the Administrator of the Northern Territory, Mr Ted Egan AO and asked him to pardon Stuart. We encourage you to send your own version of the letter to Mr Egan.
The letter is on Stuart’s blog here.
Please send letters to:
Mr Ted Egan AO
The Administrator of the NT
GPO Box 497
Darwin NT 0801
Australia
There are ‘Free Stuart Highway’ posters on the NAPNT website here. Please download and copy these and paste them up in your community. The town should be covered with ‘Free Stuart Highway’ posters.
Graffiti is a good idea too! It is certainly time to up the ante a little bit!
NAPNT members will be present at the steps of the NT Supreme Court on Thursday from 5.00pm to protest against the venue for the Human Rights Award and Exhibition and to highlight Stuart’s ongoing incarceration. If you are in Darwin, please join us.
NAPNT members are still very concerned for Stuart’s welfare, please ring the Darwin Correctional Centre on (08) 8922 0111 (+61 8 8922 0111) to ensure that Stuart’s human rights are being respected. Please write to Stuart and let him know that he (and the other prisoners) is supported on the outside.
And, Stuart would appreciate it if you could write to him and let him know that he has our support on the outside. His postal address is:
Stuart Highway
Darwin Prison
PO Box 1407
Darwin NT 0801
Australia
For more information about Stuart’s case and what you can do to help Free Stuart Highway click here.
Free Stuart Highway
2 Comments:
Graffitti is NOT the answer, it only serves to turn the community against you.
DO NOT damage other people private property by sparaypainting grafitti on it, lest you end up in the same cell as Stuart for criminal damage of private property.
What is private property? Who owns land and why? Is it ok to destroy ones 'land' if one owns it?
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."
Albert Einstein
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