Martin Meehan

Dec. 12, 1975 - Northern Ireland Secretary Ends All Detention Without Trial: Detention without trial in Ulster ended amid a tide of fury yesterday. Mr. Rees, Northern Ireland Secretary, signed release orders for the last 73 of the 1, 981 men and women held at various times since internment began in August 1971. Although he won qualified backing from some Protestant and Catholic leaders, he was bitterly criticized by meet Ulster Loyalists and by Conservatives at Westminster - despite his promise to bring back detention if the Ira resumed any full-scale bombing campaign. Photo shows Martin Meehan, former Provisional Ira leader in the Ardoyne, brandishing his key of office as chairman of the Maze camp council when he left the prison yesterday with the last of the men detained there without trial

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