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BBC OS: Apology to 'Magdalena Laundries' Survivors

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Apology to 'Magdalena Laundries' Survivors

06/06/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Apology to 'Magdalena Laundries' Survivors

Irish President has apologised to Magdalena Laundries survivors.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Dublin to welcome home survivors of the Magdalene Laundries.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has apologised to thousands of women forced to work in the country's Magdalene Laundries - workshops for unmarried mothers. 
And: Pakistani journalist who has openly criticised the military was briefly kidnapped by masked men in Lahore; and a man who's experienced locked in syndrome and now uses a voice synthesiser. 

Photo: Survivor of the Magdalene laundries, Mary Foley. Credit: PA Wire/Brian Lawless)

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