Britain frees ailing IRA veteran Marian Price after 2-year campaign; will remain hospitalized
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Britain says it has paroled a prominent Irish Republican Army veteran, Marian Price, because she is ill with a range of mental and physical problems.
The Irish government and leaders of the Irish Catholic minority in Northern Ireland welcomed Thursday's decision to free Price following a two-year campaign for her release. But because of her illness Price, who has been held under guard for the past year in a Belfast hospital, will remain hospitalized indefinitely.
The 59-year-old Price originally received a life sentence for participating in the Provisional IRA's first car-bomb attacks on London in 1973. She won parole on humanitarian grounds in 1980 after suffering from anorexia nervosa.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Britain in 2011 ordered Price to resume her 1973 sentence because she allegedly aided IRA splinter groups. She faces two charges.