Stephen Held Given Five Year Term Dublin, June 27.
Appearing under the Emergency Powers Act and the Offences Against the State Act, Stephen Carroll Held was yesterday sentenced to five years' penal servitude by the Special Criminal Court here on a charge of aiding unknown persons to attempt to obtain information likely to be prejudicial to the safety of the state.
Held was acquitted of charges of conspiracy to usurp the functions of the government by maintaining an armed force and obtaining, on behalf of that force, $20,000.—Reuter.
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