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HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to September 2000.
Il carcere di Maze (HM Prison Maze) è stato un carcere del Regno Unito situato nella località di Long Kesh, nell'Irlanda del Nord, che si trova vicino a Lisburn, nella contea di Antrim. È anche citato come carcere di Long Kesh.
HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh) was a maximum security prison considered to be one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. It held prisoners suspected of taking part in armed paramilitary campaigns during the Troubles, with separate wings for loyalists and for republicans.
Following the introduction of internment in August 1971, Long Kesh – a disused WW2 airfield near Lisburn, south of Belfast – was used as an internment camp. Due to prison overcrowding, from December 1972 Long Kesh was also used for sentenced prisoners.
21 ott 2008 · Life and death in Long Kesh. Held in the notorious Northern Irish jail in the 70s, Ronan Bennett recalls the gas attacks, the beatings, the smell - and the jokes - and applauds Steve McQueen's...
5 dic 2020 · I blocchi a forma di H del carcere di Tora, alla periferia meridionale del Cairo, rimandano alla famigerata prigione di Maze, più comunemente denominata Long Kesh, nella cittadina nordirlandese...
30 apr 2021 · Prisoners in Belfast's Crumlin Road jail go on hunger strike demanding "political" status, with the same privileges enjoyed by their comrades detained in Long Kesh. A hunger strike led by IRA...
