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Press release Voices in the Wilderness UK 0794 783 9992 Iraqi people’s plea to UK sanctions breakers: "Stop smart sanctions"
Voices in the Wilderness UK’s (1) eighth sanctions breaking delegation returns at 8.50 am today after 8 days in Iraq, carrying Iraqi scarves, dates and dresses. By importing the goods without a licence from the UK Government, they could face five years in prison. But the delegates, who delivered medical and educational supplies whilst in Iraq, are defiant, promising to respond to the pleas of Iraqi people. "Without exception the people of Iraq pleaded with us to do all we could to prevent the ‘smart sanctions’ (2) from being implemented. They have suffered ten years under the economic sanctions that have torn their country apart, killed hundreds of thousands of children and reduced even the educated elite to wretched poverty"
The three sanctions breakers, who visited the site bombed near Mosul last week, are: Christopher Burns-Cox, a retired NHS consultant physician, 64, Bilal Moosa Patel, 33, a web designer from east London and Frances Brodrick, 22, a student of Arabic at Edinburgh University. They will hand in a letter to No.10 Downing Street at 11am (call to confirm)
The sanctions breaking goods will be auctioned at an anti sanctions conference in east London on Saturday June 30tt , 5pm.
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