Thursday, 8 February, 2001: Libyan secret agent Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi has gone on hunger strike after being convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. One of his original lawyers said al-Megrahi had begun refusing food and was "depressed". Al-Megrahi announced on Wednesday he was appealing against his 20-year sentence after being convicted by a Scottish court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that killed 270 people. "I have been told by the defence team that he has started a hunger strike," lawyer Stephen Mitchell said. "But the defence team and the doctors are trying to dissuade him and tell him the right course is to pursue his appeal. He is very depressed," said Mitchell, who has kept in contact with al-Megrahi's present legal team. [Sky News] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
