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01 September 2000

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Just News vol 15 no 7/8 (July-August) 2000, pp8. Latest number contains pieces on the Bloody Sunday inquiry; the case of David Adams (who was brutally assaulted by police after being arrested for IRA-related offences in 1994), emergency legislation, and a call by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe for "the protection of human rights lawyers in light of the murders of Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson."

Nor meekly serve my time, Lawrence McKeown. Fortnight 388 (September) 2000, pp30-32. This article explores the history of "one of the world's most infamous jails", Northern Ireland's Long Kesh (The Maze), which saw the unprecedented struggle for the retention of political status category by Republican prisoners during the 1970s and 1980s. McKoewn argues that Northern Ireland's prisons should be regarded as a microcosm of society: "When there was an attempt to deny the political nature of the prisoners and coerce them into a forced and false system of integration the outcome was conflict, protest and deaths."

Parliamentary debates

Terrorism Bill Commons 10.7.00 cols. 627-665
Police (Northern Ireland) Bill (Allocation of Time) Commons 11.7.00 cols. 723-753
Police (Northern Ireland) Bill Commons 11.7.00 cols. 754-842
Police (Northern Ireland) Bill Lords 27.7.00 cols. 635-703

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