They were later released. In 1981,Tehran authorities changed the name of the road running in front of the British embassy from Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street, after the Irish Republican Army member who died on a hunger strike in prison.

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You know, Bobby Sands and the hunger strikers there were left to die, in effect.

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A. warriors, and led by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), at Maze prison, in Northern Ireland.

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He was in prison with Bobby Sands, the iconic IRA figure who died in hunger strike in 1981.

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