>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:58:56 +0200 >From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sorry it is a bit late but: > > ISTANBUL, Oct 1 (AFP) - Police detained more than 100 >demonstrators preparing Sunday to protest against the opening of new >prisons with smaller cells in Turkey in Ankara and Istanbul, the >Anatolia news agency reported. > In Ankara, some 60 protestors were detained as they prepared to >march on the Turkish parliament, where they intended to express >their disapproval of the opening of more than 12 new F-type prisons, >in which traditional dormitories sleeping up to 60 will be replaced >by three-man cells. > Turkish security forces later released the demonstrators, >allowing them to march toward the National Assembly. > In Istanbul, anti-riot police took 35 people into custody near >the Gaziosmanpasa prison as they prepared to demonstrate against >prison reforms. > Families of prisoners, many of them radical left-wingers, and >human rights groups have repeatedly denounced the Turkish >government's new prison policy. > At present, most Turkish prisoners are housed in dormitories, >which police maintain is largely to blame for the frequent riots and >hostage-taking incidents in Turkish jails. > The introduction this autumn of smaller cells is expected to >reduce this danger. > But the planned changes are opposed by prisoners and by human >rights organisations, which claim the new system will lead to >further social alienation among inmates. > The country has about 600 jails housing more than 70,000 >inmates. > Turkey, which is a candidate for membership in the European >Union, is regularly criticised for its human rights record. > > >-- >Press Agenccy Ozgurluk >In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey >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 _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
