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'If you are in favour of human rights, you must want them for everyone - including prisoners'

‘It is a mark of true sincerity, therefore, for politicians to take up unpopular causes like that of Leon Wright,’ writes author Frankie Gaffney.

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Dec 14th 2016, 6:00 PM

Ireland's 'most dangerous' inmate had ear bitten and torn by Mountjoy prison officer

Concern has been expressed about treatment of the 28-year-old by prison staff.

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Dec 13th 2016, 9:00 PM

Wallace and Daly back violent prisoner whose 'human rights were breached'

Leon Wright, who has 84 previous convictions, was today cleared of assaulting a prison officer.

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Oct 19th 2016, 8:23 PM