THE Parades Commission has rejected a request to review route restrictions placed on an anti-internment parade due to take place this weekend.
The decision came as it emerged the wife of Derry republican Tony Taylor - who has been jailed without charge - is set to be the main speaker at a rally following the parade in Belfast.
Tony Taylor was returned to jail in March after his early release licence was revoked by then secretary of state Theresa Villiers.
The Parades Commission yesterday dismissed a request to review its decision to reject a revised route for Sunday's parade.
Earlier this week the commission banned the parade from entering the city centre for the second year running.
In response the Anti-Internment League (AIL), notified the commission of plans to take an alternative route from the north to the west of the city via Carrick Hill and Millfield and onto Divis Street for a rally in west Belfast.
This route would have taken the parade past Peters Hill, which is close to the Shankill Road and a mainly unionist enclave known as Brown Square.
Organisers originally wanted to bring up to 5,000 people and five bands through the city centre on Sunday to mark the 46th anniversary of the introduction of internment.
In the original plan the parade was to leave Ardoyne in north Belfast at 11.30am before travelling along Cliftonville Road, Antrim Road, New Lodge Road, North Queen Street, Donegall Street and Royal Avenue, before moving along Castle Street to a rally in west Belfast.
The Parades Commission has ruled that the route of both proposed parades should proceed only as far the entrance of Clifton House on North Queen Street before either dispersing or returning to Ardoyne Avenue.
A solicitor for the AIL Michael Brentnall said legal options are being considered.
AIL spokesman Dee Fennell last night said the parade would go ahead despite the route restrictions but called the Parades Commission and PSNI to clarify if participants will be allowed travel into the city centre and other parts of Belfast when the parade is concluded.
The Parades Commission last night said parade organisers have been given "a degree of flexibility with its dispersal arrangements”.
Superintendent Melanie Jones said: “Once the parade has concluded and its participants have observed the conditions imposed by the Parades Commission, police officers on the ground will seek to return the area to normal as quickly as possible to enable people to go about their daily business.”
Two other marches planned for this Sunday, one expected to involve members of the far-right group Britain First and a separate loyalist protest parade, which were due to take place around the same time, also have restrictions placed on them.
