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Blanket protest
The
blanket protest
was part of a five-year protest during
the Troubles
by
Provisional Irish Republican Army
(IRA) and
Irish National Liberation Army
(INLA) prisoners held in the
Maze prison
(also known as "Long Kesh") in
Northern Ireland
. The
republican
prisoners' status as
political prisoners
, known as
Special Category Status
, had begun to be phased out in 1976. Among other things, this meant that they would now be required to wear prison uniforms like ordinary
convicts
. The prisoners refused to accept that they had been administratively designated as ordinary criminals, and refused to wear the prison uniform.
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