Maze Prison hunger strike
- Title
- Maze Prison hunger strike
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:03:49
- Description
- Paul Larsman(?) reports on the unsuccessful attempt by European Human Rights commissioners to visit hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison, Belfast as he comes close to death over demands for political prisoner status, and on fears of violence in the province. Former MP Bernadette Devlin McAliskey speaks at a rally.
- Contributors
- Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; Paul Larsman(?)
- Keywords
- Political prisoners; Human rights; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; British; Political protests; Prisons; Terrorists; Violence; Demonstrations; Members of Parliament; Sinn Fein; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Belfast; Rallies (gatherings); EC; Bobby Sands
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