Strip-Searching is Naked Torture

Date:

1980-1989

REF:

NIPC/PPO/80

Scope and Content:

Poster produced by Belfast Strip Search Committee, illustrated with a black and white stylised image of a naked women covering herself and shielding her eyes in a cell. Text reads: "Strip-searching is naked torture. Stop strip-searches. Strip searching is legalised rape. Strip-searches are used as a form of mental torture to humiliate prisoners to make them feel helpless."

Collection:

Northern Ireland Political Collection, Political Posters,

Copyright Holder:

Belfast Strip Search Committee

Keywords:

Poster, Prisoners, Republicanism, Women, Torture, Strip Searching