Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, is attending a summit of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg this week. Speaking after the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, addressed the Assembly, Crowe called for European support to ensure that Ibrahim Halawa is released from […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has called on the acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, to urgently and directly raise the cases of 30 political and community activists who have been assassinated in Colombia with the Colombian Government. Deputy Crowe said: “I have written to the acting Irish Minister for […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has called on the Israeli Government to save the life of a Palestinian hunger striker, Muhammad al-Qiq,a Palestinian Journalist who is on the brink of death. Al-Qiq has been on hunger strike for 61 days in protest at his internment without trial, called administrative detention by […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has labelled the EU’s refugee relocation scheme as ‘broken’ after newly released figures show that only 322 refugees based in Greece and Italy have been resettled, despite a commitment to resettle 160,000. Speaking in the Dáil during statements on the last European Council meeting Crowe called […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has called on the Israeli Government to release the Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qeq who was arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli authorities, held without a trial or charges, and began a hunger strike on 24 November 2015. Al-Qeq began his hunger strike 50 days ago to […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, raised the assassination of prominent Kurdish human rights lawyer, Tahir Elçi, in the Dáil today. Crowe also raised continued human rights violations in Turkey and the jailing of journalists. Deputy Crowe said: “Tahir Elçi was assassinated in broad daylight by a single bullet to the head. […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has called on the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, to support calls for the release of Palestinian MP, Khalida Jarrar. He also called on the Minister to raise the case with his European colleagues. Deputy Crowe said: “Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian MP, a senior member […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Seán Crowe TD, has stated his deep concern over the search and destroy mission that the European Council have now agreed to create. Crowe challenged the wisdom of the EU deciding to use a military response in the face of an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, […]
Sinn Féin’s Seán Crowe TD, a member of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), has called on the new British Government to fully implement their obligations under the Good Friday Agreement. Crowe also expressed his concerns of the new Government’s proposed plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, which could see Britain pull […]
Reacting to the news that 1,000 children were homeless and living in emergency accommodation in Dublin during one week last month, Dublin South West Sinn Féin TD, Seán Crowe, said that reports of a recovery and economic growth mean absolutely nothing to these poor unfortunates and is a million miles away from their own personal […]
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