Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:25:51 +0000
From: jgh <jgh@intonet.co.uk>
Subject: CANDLELIT PROTEST AT WESTMINSTER

        ** CANDLELIT PROTEST AT WESTMINSTER **

        ** 100 Protestors Demand Repeal of Antiquated Antigay Laws **

        A hundred demonstrators gathered outside the Palace of Westminster
at 7 p.m. on 23rd February, to protest at the prosecution of the 'Bolton 7'
for consensual sex in the privacy of their own homes. 

        This prosecution, authorised personally by Dame Barbara Mills, head
of the Crown Prosecution Service, has been estimated to have wasted half a
million pounds of public money. 

        After the peaceful demonstration, about 60 protestors crammed into a
small room inside the Palace, where Angela Mason of Stonewall introduced
several speakers: 

--  Dr. Evan Harris, MP, (Lib. Dem.);

--  Terry Connell and Craig Turner, (two of the defendants), 
who acknowledged the enormous efforts of Alan Horsfall and Ray Gosling at
the 'Bolton 7 Defence Campaign' in Manchester; 

--  and Peter Tatchell, 
who exposed the abysmal record of over 30 MP's who refused even to discuss
the case, including two of the three Labour MP's for Bolton. 

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        For further details and pictures, see
http://www.OutRage.cygnet.co.uk/b7westm.htm