A campaign set up to call for the release of jailed TD Joe Higgins and his Socialist Party colleague Clare Daly, says it has received more than one thousand letters of support from around the world.
The campaign is being supported by seven TDs, senior trade unionists, including SIPTU President Jack O'Connor, and artists and singers including Robert Ballagh and Dolores Keane.
The Secretary of the Fingal Anti-Bin Tax Campaign, Ruth Coppinger, says support has come from trade unions and members of parliament as far away as Brazil, Nigeria and Portugal.
Deputy Higgins and Councillor Daly have served two weeks of a month-long sentence for breaching a High Court injunction.
Council seeks to have protesters jailed
Dublin City Council will seek to have 25 anti-waste charge protesters jailed or fined next Wednesday for blocking its bin lorries.
The head of the council's waste management division told the High Court this morning that campaigners had been issuing leaflets saying that the campaign would be escalated in the next few weeks and all bin collections would be halted.
Tom Loftus told the court that the council had continued to experience considerable disturbance and disruption to its waste collection service despite a High Court injunction preventing protesters from interfering with the service.
The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan, granted the council leave to serve attachment and committal orders on 25 protesters: the case will be heard next Wednesday.
