Some more information about this text: > This appeal from our Breton confreres has been passed on to me from > Brittanny via Cornish language activists in Cornwall to Allen Ivey and > then to me before Allen got email, and so I am posting it as of interest > to the network. Anyone who has any further information on the case > please let us all know about it. The following text is as received from > Brittanny: > Dear Sir/Madam, I write to inform you of recent events in Brittanny > between Wednesday 6th September and Saturday 10th, eleven Bretons, > including a 78 year old woman, were arrested under suspicion of welcoming > Basques into their homes. Four of those arrested are teachers, and two > are employed in - Diwan - , the Breton language schools. To give you better news, all these people have been released after some days, maybe one or two week for one or two. But the situation is not the best since a part of these people are now living under a juridical regime that restricts their freedom of move, waiting to be sentenced in a court, but as the charges are inexistent, i doubt there might really be a court held. > The arrests were made under very irregular circumstances. In the > case of Gireg Konan, English teacher in -Diwan- college, and his wife > Marivon Konan, they were taken from their home at 7am, and their 3 > children of 13 months, 10 years and 14 years respectively, were left > alone in their house. In addition to this, Ivona Konan, their 14 year > old daughter was interrogated by police. > Under the French judiciary system, 6 people were held for questioning >for 73 hours at a secret address under inhuman conditions, This is only traditional french police methods. For those who wish to know more about the extreme they can reach, i suggest they read the last report of Amnesty International, about France, where several cases of death from police activities, this last year, are yet to be explained and judged. > We would ask you to contact the Judge who has ordered these arrests, Yes, any action in support of this problem is welcomed, since we do not know if it might continue tomorrow. There has already been important local mobilization for these prisonners, and for the right of people. A demonstration was held in mid october, in Lannion, in north Brittany, counting 3000 people with many organisations, and personalities, the Rennes mayor had also sent a support message. a.c. P.S. repondant au debat sur le choix des langues, je prefere utiliser l'anglais, essentiellement pour une raison d'efficacite'.