INVITATION TO A PRESS CONFERENCE F-type prisons in Turkey and the resulting death fast action. Dorint Hotel Boulevard Charlemagne 11-19, 1000 Brussels WEDNESDAY 30th MAY 2001, 11.00 AM. Participants: � Herman Schmid: Member of the European Parliament (Sweden) � Patrick Hostekint: SP and member of the Flemish Parliament � Karel van Hoorebeke: Volksunie and member of the Belgian Parliament � Relative of a prisoner who died during the military operations within prisons last December � Relatives of prisoners on death fast � Sophie Merckx, doctor and part of a PRW- human rights mission to Turkey Hundreds of prisoners continue their death fast action, urging the Turkish government to negotiate with the prisoner�s representatives to end isolation and to stop forced medical intervention. The death fast is now over 200 days old. The protests both inside the country and abroad have been ignored, even though 54 people have died. With the death of Ugur T�rkmen, on Sunday 27 May 2001, already the fifth TAYAD member has died on death fast. The international press is invited to interview the families of the prisoners and to receive reports of a former delegation to Turkey. for contact: TAYAD Solidarity Committee Tel/Fax: 02/230 08 66 _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
