Solidarity with prisoners and hostages Second statement from International Peace Conference This international Peace Conference of 1,400 antiwar activists from Britain, the USA and many other countries demands the release of all illegally detained prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
We urge the release of the four Christian peace campaigners, Norman Kember, Tom Fox, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, and we ask those holding them to return them to their families unharmed. Fred Leplat (Stop the War Steering Committee
The International Peace Conference held December 10 organised by the Stop the War Coalition was an impressive and successful event. More than 1400 people attended.
The conference was opened with a declaration calling for the release of the Christian peace activists being held as hostages in Iraq.
The conference later heard live from Anas al Tikriti of the Muslim Association of Britain in the Middle East who had been in Iraq trying to secure the release of the hostages.
The Iraqi delegates were Sheikh al Khallisi of the Iraq Foundation Congress, Hanna Ibrahim from the Women's Will organisation and Hassan Jumaa of the Iraqi Workers Union. A represenLias Hassan Juma'a, President of the
Iraqi Oil Employees Federation
Walter Wolfgang
was treated as a hero. He had been thrown out of Labour Party conference for shouting "nonsense" at Jack Straw in his speech on Iraq, and then subsequently arrested under the new terrorism legislation.
Wolfgang told the Conference that some now