In a statement this evening, Richard Boyd Barrett TD for People Before Profit, announced he would be holding a press conference tomorrow morning at 11.45 on his return from visiting Irish Citizen, Daniel Tatlow Devally in prison in Ulm and attending the trial of the Ulm 5 in Stuttgart.
Richard Boyd Barrett led a cross-party delegation to Germany to visit Daniel Tatlow Devally, an Irish Citizen, originally from Blackrock, in prison.
Daniel has been in prison since September 8 2025 after he and 4 others were arrested for protesting genocide.
The Ulm 5 are charged with criminal damage at Elbit systems, an arms manufacturer that produces 80% of the weapons used by the Israeli state in their genocide against the Palestinian people.
The five have been held in solitary confinement in different prisons, 23 hours a day since their arrest. The trial started on April 27th and there are over 40 dates scheduled up to January 2027, at which point the 5 will have been in prison for 15 months.
The cross party delegation was initiated by Richard Boyd Barrett and included party colleague, Ruth Coppinger TD; Mairead Farrell and Lynn Boylan from Sinn Féin, Duncan Smith from the Labour Party, Senator Patricia Stephenson from the Social Democrats, and Barry Ward from Fine Gael in a personal capacity.
Richard said “I initiated this delegation after Daniel’s family reported inhumane conditions in the prison and serious irregularities in the trial proceedings that they believed infringed the human rights of the five Palestine activists.
“I have been raising this issue in the Dáil since early this year, but when all requests to Minister McEntee, for official observation of the trial, fell on deaf ears, I decided to try and get a cross-party delegation to see for ourselves what was happening.
“After visiting and talking to Daniel and observing the trial for myself I want to appeal to the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Foreign Affairs to do what was done in the case of the Colombia 3 and Ibrahim Halawa and send official government observers to this trial. I am also calling on them to do everything in their power to ensure the conditions that Daniel and the other 4 are being kept in comply with fundamental human rights.
“We went to Germany because we were gravely concerned by accounts of the trial and the conditions of detention for Daniel and the other activists. Having visited Daniel in prison and witnessed the manner in which the trial is being conducted I am convinced this is a show trial where the defendants are not being given a fair chance to present their defence and are being treated in a brutal, inhumane and totally unacceptable way.”