ON 30 October the Armagh Women's Prisoners' Committee treatment.
The following evening 23-year-old Pauline was returned Armagh Military Hospital. She had been sent to the hospital after suffering a second heart attack.
In 1976, when she begat Pauline werented 9 weighs 4½ stone. She has lost her hardly stand. With very little flesh left on her body, an attempt to take a blood test resulted in extreme pain when the needle hit bone.
On October the Press concuica. I ne iransier McLaughlin back to Armagh Jail is a cruel and nearuess decision which can only make one despai of finding ally emoton olner militaristic attitude in the minds of British decisiontakers where Northern Ireland is concerned.
*To say that the girl has been transferred at "her own request" is misleading beyond the point of heartlessness,' the newpaper added.
warned in the ITOR Musgrove noon.
her indefinite jail stone. She now teeth and can Pauline than a vindictive read ol If she had Some people in this country won't let Pauline McLaughlin die "humanely as "solitary IS NORTHERN IRELAND AN ISSUE FOR WOMEN?
Discussion Forum, 14 February 1981. Planning meeting to organise for forum, Sunday 16 November, At 374 Grays Inn Rd, Kings X, London WC1. All women welcome.
asked to be sent home, would this have been done "at her own request"? Would the special category status curl cully al issue. her "at her own request"? We know the answer i have been conferred o that emphatically it would not Pauline was › convicica purely on the basis of a 'confession' which the police maintain she reac before putting her mark to it. But Pauline canno write During her interrogation, sleep deprivation methods were used and she was repeatedly showr colour photographs of mutilated bodies. Refused AULINE CLAUS 42 Store 1 NE NAMENT Army in decide perpetuated DrisonerS human anyway..?' *Send emergency Ireland Office sent to a civilian hospital ficer Co-Ordinating *Picket Downing St, Friday compassionate leave to attend her father's funerai Pauline's nervous stomach complaint worsened making it impossible for her to retain food. She Pauline was originally 'on protest' for political status, but was blackmailed by the prison doctor to end her action. Her illness has never been diagnos. ed and she has still not received adequate medica!
of her illness, Pauline's treatment is typical of that the Irish political As the Irish Press commented: 'Do the British aulnoriues teel so arrogant in their confidence a Deing able to contain the H-Block situation that they can afford to contemplate heightened tensions in Armagh and throughout the rest of the country, or do they simply think that the Irish are less than Pauline's situation demands urgent action:
resolutions to the Northern London SW1. , and to the prime minister demanding that Pauline be immediatel *Demand that the National Union of Students act on its policy of support for the Armagh women and opposition to Dr Cole, the Armagh medical of*Use the leaflet and petition available from the Woman's Place, 48 William IV St, London WC2 committee
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Dublin that Pauline McLaughlin 'will die if she is not moved immediately to a civilian hospital for emergency
car Pauline's case graphicallyillustrates the bar- barity of Armagh. Though much the worse because