Gerry Conlon (1954 - 2014) جيري كونلون
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Irish writer, born in Belfast, United Kingdom. He spent 15 years in prison after being falsely accused of being behind an attack on the Irish Republican Army. The film In the Name of the Father (1993) was inspired by this story. The film secured the Golden Bear award at the...Read more Berlin Film Festival and garnered several Oscar nominations. He was part of the Guildford Four, whose four members were sentenced to life imprisonment as part of a bombing that targeted two pubs in southern England, killing five people in 1974. He spent 15 years behind bars before the sentence was overturned in 1989. He died on June 21, 2014, in Belfast, United Kingdom
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Irish writer, born in Belfast, United Kingdom. He spent 15 years in prison after being falsely accused of being behind an attack on the Irish Republican Army. The film In the Name...Read more of the Father (1993) was inspired by this story. The film secured the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival and garnered several Oscar nominations. He was part of the Guildford Four, whose four members were sentenced to life imprisonment as part of a bombing that targeted two pubs in southern England, killing five people in 1974. He spent 15 years behind bars before the sentence was overturned in 1989. He died on June 21, 2014, in Belfast, United Kingdom
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