>From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Status: > >URL: www.freedom-for-ocalan.com > >14 th July > > Kurdish Observer - 'Hunger strike at CHP office continues; dogs = >scavenging for prisoners' body parts' > >ISTANBUL > >The loved ones of prison inmates who occupied the CHP Beyoglu district >headquarters with the aim of protesting F-type or cell-type prisons are >continuing their hunger strike. Families of prisoners who gathered at >the Human Rights Association (IHD), meanwhile, protested the fact that a >street dog was found wandering the streets of Isparta with the arm that >was snapped off of a prisoner during the security raid in Burdur Prison >in its jaws. > >About 15 people, including children, from the Families of Prisoners and >Detainees Association (TAYAD) began a hunger strike at the CHP Beyoglu >district office the other day. While some TAYAD members left the >building towards evening, 9 people are continuing their hunger strike in >the building, the entrances and exits of which have been sealed off. CHP >Istanbul Provincial Chairman Mehmet Boluk said he had spoken with the >families of prisoners and that, "This will finish pleasantly today." > >Meanwhile, members of the Union of Families of Prisoners and Detainees >(TUYAB) held a press conference at the Istanbul branch of the Human >Rights Association (IHD) to protest cell-type prisons. Umit Efe of the >IHD Istanbul Branch Prison Commission, recalling that the prisoners' >families holding a hunger strike at the CHP Beyoglu office had been >asked to abandon the building, said, "We condemn this [call]." He also >denounced the fact that the arm of Veli Sacilik had been found in the >jaws of a street dog.=20 > >Sacilik's arm was snapped off during the events at Burdur Prison on July >7. A relative of Sacilik said on Turkish television Wednesday evening >that Veli's arm had been snapped off when caught between a bulldozer and >a wall at the prison. It is reported that the driver of the bulldozer, >after succeeding in breaking down the ward wall, continued to move >forward and attack prisoners with the dozer. Veli's arm was disposed of >at the hospital after doctors said they were unable to reattach it. >Residents of Isparta became fearful and reported to police when they saw >a street dog running down the street with a human arm in its mouth. >Police and hospital officials confirmed that the arm belonged to Veli >Sacilik, but could not explain how it ended up in the possession of the >dog and asserted that the arm had been buried in a local cemetery. The >relative of Sacilik said on television that the family had been >extremely distraught when they heard of this macabre event. > > >-- >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] ___________________________________
