From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:45:29 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ozgurluk] 32nd Turkish hunger striker dies http://www.online.ie/news/latest_world/viewer.adp?article=1497180 32nd Turkish hunger striker dies online.ie 31 Aug 2001 The Turkish hunger strike has claimed its 32nd victim after the sister of a man being held in one of the country's notorious prisons starved to death today. 38-year-old Hulya Simsek, whose incarcerated brother is also on hunger strike, died in a house in Istanbul after 285 days without food. She had been living in the house with a number of other hunger strikers who are protesting against the Turkish authorities oppression of political prisoners. So far, 25 prisoners and seven of their relatives have died in the strike, which began 11 months ago when the Government forced prisoners out of dormitories and into small cells. The prisoners have claimed that the small cells make it easier for prison officials to torture them on a daily basis. Nearly 200 prisoners, all members of outlawed left-wing militant groups, are participating in the hunger strike. -- Press Agency Ozgurluk In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey http://www.ozgurluk.org _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
