RT Article
T1 The Long Kesh Hunger Strikers: 25 Years Later
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 4
SP 69
OP 91
A1 Howard, Paul
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157007
AB 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.
K1 Criminal Law
K1 Prison System
K1 Criminal Procedure
K1 Detention of persons
K1 Social Justice
K1 War victims
K1 Prisoners of war
K1 Hunger strikes -- Northern Ireland
K1 Hunger strikes
K1 Political prisoners