Human Rights Lawyer Gareth Peirce Delivered the Lecture
The Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee is honoured to host esteemed campaigner for justice and human rights, English Solicitor,Gareth Pierce to deliver this year’s Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture.
Gareth was invited by the weekend committee to deliver this year’s lecture because of her long history of representing those who have been at the receiving end of human rights abuses and miscarriages of justice. Some of the many people she has represented down through the years include: the ‘Birmingham Six’, the ‘Guildford Four’, former Guantanamo Bay internee Moazzam Begg and more recently the family of Jean Charles da Menezes (the young Brazilian man who was shot dead by police officers in the London underground after they wrongly identified him of being a suicide bomber).
The Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee invites all those concerned for justice and human rights everywhere to come to the Guildhall in Derry city for 8pm on Saturday March 20th to here Gareth Peirce deliver this year’s Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture, ‘Set the Truth Free’!
Venue: Guildhall, Derry City
Date: Saturday, March 20th 2010
Time: 8pm
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