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Prison Protests in Palestine
Today we’re looking at protest by prisoners. Some of the most famous cases of protest politics involve protests by prisoners.
Think of hunger striking suffragettes in early-twentieth-century Britain.
Think of the dirty protest among republican prisoners in Belfast in the late 1970s, and then the hunger strikes there in 1981.
Indeed, just two weeks ago on this podcast we were discussing Alex Navalny, Russian opposition leader, who remains influential despite being behind bars.
Prison protests may be invisible to the outside world, but they can nevertheless resonate widely.
And in this episode…
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