Roger Casement has been remembered as a "colossus" of global human rights during a commemoration at the London prison where the Easter Rising leader was executed.
The Roger Casement Commemoration & Re-interment Association marked the 107th anniversary of the Dublin-born nationalist icon's death at Pentonville Prison on Saturday, ahead of commemorations later this week in Belfast and Murlough Bay near Ballycastle.
The group holds annual events in the north to celebrate Casement's links to Co Antrim, and is campaigning to have his remains removed from Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery and re-interred at Murlough Bay , where he said he wished to be buried in a final letter from Pentonville before his execution for treason in August 1916.
At Saturday's wreath-laying event at Pentonville, where Casement was originally buried following his execution, the group remembered the former diplomat's work highlighting human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru.
"Casement was an extraordinary but very complex man. He was a colossus of international human rights, a giant in global humanitarianism," association chair Bob Murray said.
Referring to the ongoing reinterment campaign, he added: "Be it in a quicklime grave in Pentonville Prison or in the republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, no matter how highly honoured, Casement cannot rest in peace."
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