> There is a possibility the prisoners' condition might be further
>complicated by the hunger strike, begun in order to put pressure on the court
>to take long overdue action in their cases and give the Serbs the same
>treatment as that accorded to the ethnic Albanians.
>
> MITROVICA PRISON AUTHORITIES REFUSE TO ALLOW DOCTORS TO VISIT
>SERBS
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 20 (Tanjug) - Kosovska Mitrovica
>district prison authorities refused on Thursday to allow a member of the
>Yugoslav committee on cooperation with the U.N. mission and a team of doctors
>to visit Serbs and Romanies in custody who have for days been on hunger
>strike.
>
> A prison official quoted relevant bodies of the U.N. civilian
>mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) as saying that the prisoners could only
>be visited once a week. According to a report submitted to the committee by a
>team of doctors, only 12 of about 40 persons in custody were examined on
>Wednesday, four of whom are in critical condition.
>
> The prisoners went on hunger strike more than a week ago over
>months' old failure to settle their status and inadequate treatment on the
>part of the exclusively ethnic Albanian prison authorities.
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