WELCOME HOME HARRY NICOLAIDES!

For Immediate Release: February 22, 2009

Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel. 1-917-699-9935

NEW YORK—The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) is happy to announce that Political Ethnic Greek Prisoner of Conscience Harry Nicolaides has been officially released from prison in Thailand and is back home with his family in Australia. CANA was the only organization in the organized Greek and Greek Cypriot communities in America to actively campaign for Harry Nicolaides’ unconditional release from prison in Thailand. We thank the thousands of activists on the CANA E-List, the vast network of bloggers and internet community groups who responded to our organized e-Alerts, letter writing campaigns and demonstration outside of the Thai consulate in New York last month. HARRY IS NOW FREE! WELCOME HOME BROTHER! WELCOME HOME HARRY NICOLAIDES! We extend best wishes to his family in Australia and Cyprus, and we were proud to act and march for our brother’s freedom. We did not forget you, and WE WILL NEVER FORGET OUR ETHNIC GREEK BROTHERS.

Related News:

Greeks rally to free Harry by Helena Smith, Published 19 February 2009

Urgent petitions, launched mostly by ethnic Greeks living in America and Australia, have been started in cyberspace. . A blog, Bring Harry Home, has collected nearly 9,000 signatures since its launch early this month. In letters written from jail (penned in Greek using Latin script, in an ingenious move to avoid being understood by prison guards), Nicolaides has described the awful conditions of incarceration.

http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/02/nicolaides-thailand-cyprus

Author Harry Nicolaides freed from Thai jail By Simon Mossman AAP February 21, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25086273-2,00.html

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