Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Red Rebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Che List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 2:25 AM Subject: [red_activism] Turkey: TKP-ML Death-Faster Dies Turkish prisoner hunger strike death toll hits 30 ================================ August 3, 2001 Posted: 12:23 PM EDT (1623 GMT) ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A hunger striker protesting Turkey's prison system starved to death Friday, raising the number of prisoners who have died in the months-long protest to 30, the Anatolia news agency reported. The hunger strikers, all members of banned leftist groups, are protesting new maximum-security prisons with small cells that, they say, leave prisoners isolated and open to abuse by guards. The prisoners were transferred to the new prisons from large dormitory-style wards late last year. <...> Muharrem Horoz, 28, a member of the banned Turkish Workers Communist Liberation Army/Marxist-Leninist or TKP-ML TIKKO, died at Izmit hospital, in northwest Turkey, Anatolia said. Ozgur Gelecek, a leftist newspaper close to the TKP-ML TIKKO, confirmed Horoz's death. Some 200 prisoners from leftist groups and their relatives have been fasting since last year, taking sugared or salted water with vitamins to keep themselves alive and prolong the fast. Horoz had been fasting for 236 days at northwest Kandira prison. He was taken to Izmit hospital 10 days ago after his condition deteriorated, Anatolia and Ozgur Gelecek said. Anatolia said Horoz was in prison pending the outcome of a trial in which he is accused of involvement in a 1999 bomb attack that injured a provincial governor and killed three people, including the governor's bodyguard. Prosecutors had demanded the death sentence for Horoz and 28 other defendants. The government has introduced laws that allow prisoners limited communal activity and opens prisons to independent inspections -- moves which human rights groups have said do not go far enough. The government has ruled out a return to a system of large wards that were often run by leftist, Kurdish or radical Islamic groups. Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. -- Press Agency Ozgurluk In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey http://www.ozgurluk.org ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Small business owners... Tell us what you think! http://us.click.yahoo.com/vO1FAB/txzCAA/ySSFAA/XcSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
