Denis O'Hearn

Denis O'Hearn is author of Nothing But an Unfinished Song : The Life and Times of Bobby Sands (Nation Books).

A Hunger for Justice

May 6, 2006

Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe continue to use hunger to draw attention to their plights.

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