The Long Kesh Hunger Strikers: 25 Years Later

The article focuses on the issue pertaining the hunger strike protest for Irish Republican prisoners to be granted political status at the Long Kesh Prison, in Northern Ireland. In this context, the author mentioned about Bobby Sands, Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone who died in t...

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Autor principal: Howard, Paul (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2006
En: Social justice
Año: 2006, Volumen: 33, Número: 4, Páginas: 69-91
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Publisher)
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Palabras clave:
Criminal Law
Prison System
Criminal Procedure
Detention of persons
Social Justice
War victims
Prisoners of war
Hunger strikes > Northern Ireland
Hunger strikes
Political prisoners
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Sumario:The article focuses on the issue pertaining the hunger strike protest for Irish Republican prisoners to be granted political status at the Long Kesh Prison, in Northern Ireland. In this context, the author mentioned about Bobby Sands, Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone who died in the prison hospital of the H Blocks, Long Kesh Prison. As prisoners of war, Irish Republicans refused to accept the label criminal. But the British government had removed special category status for those sentenced for crimes related to the conflict after March 1, 1976. With this, the prisoner's five demands encompassed five political rights.
ISSN:2327-641X