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IRA Prisoners

01 January 1991

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IRA Prisoners
artdoc May=1991
House of Commons written answer 14.12.89 Col.785

Mr. Mullin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home
Department (1) how many convicted members of the Irish
Republican Army currently held in British prisons enjoy
category B status apart from the six men convicted after the
Birmingham pub bombings;

(2) how many Irish Republican Army members currently
serving sentences of life imprisonment enjoy category B status
apart from the six men convicted after the Birmingham pub
bombings.

Mr. Mellor: There are at present in prisons in England and
Wales 37 prisoners convicted of terrorist offences believed to
have been carried out by the IRA. Twenty-four are serving life
sentences, one (excluding the Birmingham Six) not being in
category A.

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