>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > > > ISTANBUL, June 6 (AFP) - Forty-five demonstrators were detained >here Tuesday after protesting publicly against a new jail system >which will replace prisoner dormitories by individual cells, the >Anatolia press agency reported. > The government is to open new prisons equipped only with cells >which can contain no more than three prisoners each. > At present inmates of Turkish jails share dormitories >accommodating 10 to 60 persons. But prison authorities are doing >away with the design because they consider it an encouragement to >jail disturbances and rioting. > The introduction of small cells is being challenged by convicts >and has been condemned by human rights organisations. > A 200-strong demonstration was organised by the women's branch >of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party, who chanted "Freedom >for prisoners" before being dispersed by anti-riot police. > A 100-strong demonstrations took place in front of Bayrampasa >prison here. > According to official figures, Turkey has some 70,000 prisoner >jail inmates, including 10,000 imprisoned for terrorism-related >offences. > Some 5,000 new inmates are inducted evvery year into an already >overcrowded prison system. > > >--- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
