Writings From Prison: Bobby Sands - Softcover

Sands, Bobby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185635220X ISBN 13: 9781856352208

Verlag: Mercier Press, 1998

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Reseña del editor:

In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons - abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.

Biografía del autor:

Bobby Sands was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while in HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During his strike he was elected as a member of the United Kingdom Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate. His death resulted in a new surge of IRA recruitment and activity. International media coverage brought attention to the hunger strikers, and the Republican movement in general, attracting both praise and criticism.

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• Verlag: Mercier Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 185635220X
• ISBN 13: 9781856352208
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256