The Five Demands

1 MARCH 1981 STATEMENT AT START OF SECOND HUNGER STRIKE We, the Republican POWs in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, and our comrades in Armagh prison, are entitled to and hereby demand political status, and we reject today, as we have consistently rejected every day since September 14th, 1976, when the Blanket protest began, the British government‘s attempted criminalisation of