> >From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" Turkey: Prison reforms provokes protests >Sunday, 20 August, 2000, 22:26 GMT 23:26 UK >Prison reforms in Turkey provokes >protests > >There have been further arrests in Turkey following demonstrations >against the government's plans to reform overcrowded prisons. > >Police have detained about forty people in the city of Istanbul, after >protests against the transfer of their relatives from large >dormitory-style prison blocks to prisons with small cells. On >Saturday, thirty people were arrested after similar protests. Human >rights groups say the new cell system will isolate inmates and leave >them more open to abuse by prison guards. > >But officials say the reforms will bring Turkey's prison system closer >to European Union standards. > >They say smaller cells will break up the power that Islamic, Kurdish >and mafia leaders wield over prisoners in crowded dormitories. >Prisons in Turkey have recently been plagued by a series of >hostage-taking incidents, riots and hunger strikes. > >>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > _______________________________________ 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] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
