Irish hunger strike survivor Pat Sheehan warns Heba Muraisi as she passes Bobby Sands’ 66-day protest record. The Sinn Féin MLA tells Palestine strikers of the toll on friends and family ...
Prisoners for Palestine, the British-based prisoner-led collective representing detainees, warned that Muraisi’s condition is ...
Heba Muraisi knows exactly what is happening to her body. “My organs are slowly but surely shutting down,” she said from a ...
Former IRA hunger striker Laurence McKeown has revealed how republican prisoners aimed to “destroy the system” in the years after the 1981 hunger strike. From Randalstown in Co Antrim, Mr McKeown ...
Palestine Action-linked remand prisoners have ended their hunger strike, claiming some of their key demands have been met.
On May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, died after 66 days on hunger strike. His death, along with those of nine other hunger strikers, sent shockwaves ...