Iranian human rights lawyer and Sakharov Prize winner Nasrin Sotoudeh was held for three years in Evin prison and was on hunger strike on four occasions, the longest for forty nine days. In an interview with Lara Marlowe in the...
Read MoreThe Bobby Sands Trust regrets to learn of the death of John Sands (pictured front left, carrying his son’s coffin), father of our comrade Bobby. Deepest condolences to his wife Rosaleen, daughters Marcella, Bernadette and...
Read MoreTwo hundred and eighty-five Palestinians prisoners are fasting in protest at their detention; 70 have already been transferred to Israeli hospitals because of deteriorating health. Many of them today marked their 49th day of...
Read MorePalestinian prisoners are ready to mount a mass hunger strike, according to The Electronic Intifida, over the continuing Israeli policy of ‘administrative detention’, which is really internment without charge...
Read MoreIn April 2013, shortly after the death of Margaret Thatcher, Tories in her constituency of Finchley invited residents to rename their street after her in the expectation that they would be queuing up in their droves (and their...
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The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.