Four years after its release the award-winning film ‘Hunger’, an account of the last days in the life of Bobby Sands, is to be shown in Italy (in Italian). It is being released by BIM Distribuzione, the leading company which deals in high-level arthouse films....

A vigil was held in recent days in Belfast in support of Palestinian hunger striker, Hanan al-Shalabi, whose condition has rapidly deteriorated. Amnesty International has expressed concern for Hana al-Shalabi, a young Palestinian woman, who is being held on...

At the recent Anti-Colonial Week held in La Bellevilloise, Paris, an event was organised to commemorate Bobby Sands and the 1981 hunger strikers. Among the guest speakers were Julie Duchatel (translator of Bobby Sands, jusqu'au bout, by Denis O’Hearn), Francis Wurtz...

Il y a 31 ans 10 Irlandais du Nord de l’Irlande mourraient au terme d’une longue grève de la faim pour réclamer le statut de prisonniers politiques que l’État britannique leur refusait. Un mouvement immense de solidarité internationale s’organisa face au courage et...

This week Florence City Council voted to name a street after Bobby Sands who died on hunger strike in 1981 fighting for political status. There was a discussion and when it came to a vote 33 city councillors out of 34 voted in favour of the street naming and there was...

“A great relief,” is how Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, described the ending of Khader Adnan’s hunger strike and a deal which will see him released early by Israeli authorities who will not allegedly renew the order of...

On behalf of the Bobby Sands Trust, its secretary Danny Morrison has called upon the Israeli government to immediately release Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan who is close to death. Danny Morrison said: “Here in Ireland the British government’s prime minister...

That was the headline of a story in today’s edition of ‘The Independent’ by Donald MacIntyre where he also said that “Khader Adnan’s two-month hunger strike has made him a hero among Palestinians outraged by Israel’s policy of arbitrary detention. Below is the text of...

A Palestinian prisoner, 33-year-old Khader Adnan, passed his fiftieth day on hunger strike last week, protesting along with 300 other inmates against the Israeli policy of internment without trial (‘administrative detention’). Details about the case (below) can be...

February 4th has been named as International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier. In Ireland there will be a protest outside the US Embassy at Ballsbridge in Dublin at 2pm next Saturday. The guest speaker will be Native American activist Jean Ann Day. There will...