DUBLIN (Reuters) -Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said he intended to take legal action against the British government for seeking to prohibit the payment of compensation to those imprisoned without trial during decades of conflict in Northern Ireland.

Adams, who led the Irish nationalist party during much of the conflict, was among hundreds of people held by Britain without trial in the early 1970s under a policy meant to break the Irish Republican Army. He has always denied membership of the militant group.

London published proposed legislation on Tuesday to enact a new framework to address the legacy of decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Part of the bill seeks to prevent those detained without trial from receiving compensation.

“Yesterday the British government pr

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