I am going on a hunger strike to the death, if necessary, to prevent my extradition to Britain. The government has it in its power to stop my extradition and only the Irish people can force the government to act.
Extradition is now a matter of life or death.
If the Dublin Government does not use its powers to prevent Dessie Ellis's extradition it will have condemned him to death. He as said that he is determined not to be sent to England to spend the rest of his life in prison. They want Dessie Ellis to be the first political prisoner to be handed over under that law. Ellis is to be extradited on conspiracy charges - charges which are impossible to disprove. He is certain to be scapegoated by the judicial system which has kept the Birmingham Six in prison unjustly for 16 years.