[news] Secret gas was issued for IRA prison riots

Resist!ca news at resist.ca
Tue Jan 25 06:09:03 PST 2005


Papers from 1976 released under the government's freedom of information legislation show that the use of 'CR' or Dibenzoxazepine- a skin irritant 10 times more powerful than other tear gases - was permitted from 1973 to be used on prison inmates in the event of an attempted mass breakout.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/164322/572



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