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16 results found for '"Internment"' in Keywords.
Soviet dissident trials (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
John Macdonald, human rights lawyer, on the illegality of Soviet dissident trials. One of the men being tried is seriously ill and would die if sent to a gulag. Previous trials were not run fairly and it...
Lech Walesa released from prison (1982)
- Genre
- News report
Report on the press conference held by leader of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, Lech Walesa, following his release from prison. Male reporter not identified.
Internment rally in Belfast (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Eamonn Mallie reports on a republican rally in Belfast, planned to mark the twelfth anniversary of internment in Northern Ireland. The meeting included a delegation from NORAID, the US fundraising...
Efforts to get Anatoly Shcharansky released (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a Soviet woman (his wife Avital Sharansky?) on the condition of Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky (Anatoly Shcharansky) who is being held in a Siberian labour camp and the efforts being made...
Campaign to free Anatoly Shcharansky (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the moving of political prisoner, Soviet Anatoly Shcharansky (Natan Sharansky), from a prison to a labour camp in the Soviet Union, and his wife Avital Sharansky’s trip to London to gather...
Anatoly Shcharansky on labour camps and human rights (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report on press conference in Jerusalem by Anatoly Shcharansky aka Natan Sharansky, released from Russia in an East-West spy swap deal, covering how he coped in labour camp and how the USA may be able to get...
Russian exile describes labour camps (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya speaks (via an interpreter) at a press conference a week after her arrival in London, on her treatment at a labour camp. Male reporter commenting on press conference not...
Security meeting with Prime Minister following IRA bomb deaths (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Following a car bomb that killed 8 off-duty soldiers in Northern Ireland, a meeting of top-level security officials including UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and Northern Ireland Secretary, Tom King has...
Margaret Thatcher’s first public comments on Army bus bombing (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher gives her first public comments on the bombing of a bus carrying British servicemen in Northern Ireland in which eight soldiers died. 18 year-old Mark Norsworthy, one of the...
Death of Major Pat Reid (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Obituary
Report following the death on 22 May 1990 of Major Pat Reid - author of The Colditz Story and one of the few prisoners to escape from the German high security POW camp. He became famous after publishing his...