Maghaberry Prison Protest

This graffito is in support of protests in Maghaberry Prison, near Lisburn, which began in May of 2011 and concluded in 2012. The protest began in response to forced full body strip searches. The protesters argued that with current technologies such as body orifice security scanners, strip searches serve as a means to humiliate prisoners. The protest involved refusals to wash or shave, emptying urine into prison landings, and smearing excrement on the walls. The graffito links the 2011 protest to the protest in Maze Prison thirty years prior, from which some of the methods of the dissident protesters were taken.