From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:34:12 +0200
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Subject: "[Ozgurluk]" AFP - Two more die in Turkish prison hunger strike,
toll at 19
AFP - Two more die in Turkish prison hunger strike, toll at 19
ANKARA
A hunger strike over controversial Turkish prison reforms claimed two
more victims on Wednesday, bringing to 19 the overall toll of the deadly
protest, the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD) said.
Erdogan Guler, 29, died in the western Turkish city of Izmir on the
150th day of his hunger strike in support of the prison protest. He was
a relative of a hunger-striking inmate, an IHD spokesman said. The
second death occured in the northwestern city of Edirne, on the border
with Greece and Bulgaria, where 25-year-old Sedat Karaterrorism charges,
died in hospital on the 177th day of his strike.
Karakurt -- a member of the extreme-left Revolutionary People's
Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) -- had been hospitalized due to his
deteriorating condition but had refused medical treatment, the IHD said.
Since March 21, 15 prisoners and four of the inmates' relatives who
joined the hunger strike in solidarity have starved themselves to death.
The prisoners' protest began last October to protest government plans to
introduce new prisons with smaller cells for up to three inmates,
replacing existing jails with large dormitories housing up to 60 people.
Prisoners maintain that they will be more vulnerable to mistreatment and
torture when isolated in smaller units.
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Press Agency Ozgurluk
In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey
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