Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SIMPSON HAS ESCAPED LIFE IN PRISON, but he will never escape the prison that is his conscience, which I hope will torment him for the rest of his life. GIANNI VASDEKIS, Buenos Aires...
...just want to hear what he says," said Laura A. Coleman '99, another Irish student. "He was in the IRA. He's been picked up many times before; he should still be in prison. When I was telling my parents that I was going to see Hill, they were disgusted...
Hill, who was arrested with three others in 1974 for his alleged involvement in the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, was brutally interrogated and repeatedly beaten by British authorities. As a result of fabricated evidence, Hill was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release at the age of 20. Hill spent 15 years in prison, five of them in solitary confinement. In April, 1994, after a lengthy court battle, he was exonerated of all charges...
Hill recounted his 15-year ordeal in prison and the international campaign launched by family and friends for his release. In 1989, Hill and the three other men imprisoned, known as "the Guildford Four," were released. Hill, however, had to spend the next five years contesting an outstanding murder charge...
...leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, whose bitter opposition to peace with Israel has fueled dozens of suicide bombings against Israelis, said he still opposes the accord on Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank. But in an interview from the Israeli prison where he was jailed for life in 1989, Sheik Ahmed Yassin told an Israeli Arab lawmaker that the agreement could not be ignored and that he was willing to "give it a chance." The pronouncement came as P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat allowed the previously banned Hamas weekly newspaper Al Watan to resume publication...