Patrick Mac Manus

Patrick Mac Manus (1944 - 12 August 2011 ) was an Irish-Danish political activist. Mac Manus immigrated to Denmark in 1966 and remained there the rest of his life. His activism included supporting the FARC rebels in the Colombian civil war; campaigning against the Turkish Occupation of Cyprus, and supporting the recognition of the Armenian and Greek genocides, he supported the creation of a Kurdish state in the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, and called for the cessation of The Troubles, against neoliberalism and also against the authoritarian governments of the Arab States. Mac Manus was a member of the Communist Party (Denmark). In 2008 the Columbian Minister of Justice called upon the Danish government to extradite Mac Manus to Columbia to stand trial. On 15 March 2010 Mac Manus was sentenced to 6 months' probation in Denmark for attempting to violate section 114b of the Criminal Code on support for terrorist organizations by soliciting financial support for FARC and PFLP.

Mac Manus died on 12 August 2011