From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BC Thursday, 20 September, 2001, 15:23 GMT 16:23 UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1554000/1554791.stm Turkey hunger strike toll reaches 36 ======================== A Turkish man on hunger strike in protest at prison reforms has died. Abdulbari Yusufoglu is the 36th person to have died during the campaign which has been running for over four months. Three people have died in the last week, including a prison inmate who set fire to himself on Tuesday in support of the hunger strikers. Prisoners argue that plans to abolish large dormitories and replace them with small one- or three-person cells leave them vulnerable to abuse from wardens. The Turkish Government says the new cells meet European standards and are necessary to break the control enforced on prisoners by political groups and organised criminals. >From the newsroom of the BBC World Service _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
