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| Turkish Hunger Strike Claims 59th Death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/25/2002 |
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An inmate died Tuesday after refusing food for more than 500 days in a nationwide hunger strike against Turkey's maximum security prison system, a human rights group said Tuesday. Imdat Bulut, a member of the outlawed People's Revolutionary Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, died in a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey's Human Rights Association said. Bulut was the 59th person to die in the strike by left-wing prisoners and their supporters, first launched in October 2000 to protest the government's policy of moving prisoners from large wards housing up to 100 people to one- or three-inmate cells. Prisoners say that small cells leave them isolated and vulnerable to abuse by officers. The government says that the large wards were unruly and became virtual training camps for militants. About 20 inmates are pressing ahead with the fast. They take vitamins and drink sugared water or tea to prolong their fast. |
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