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| Twenty Kazakh Prisoners Cut Open Veins in Protest Over Conditions |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/10/2003 |
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Twenty newly arrived prisoners in a southern Kazakh penal colony in Khazakhstan cut their own veins Monday in protest over conditions there. The prisoners at the facility in Shimkent - which houses 1,500 inmates who are all infected with tuberculosis - were immediately treated for their wounds and none suffered serious injuries, officials said. They were demanding the right to move freely inside the colony and also a halt to construction there. Petr Posmakov, a prison official in the Justice Ministry, said prosecutors had visited the site and that action would be taken against those who instigated the protest. The inmates at the prison receive treatment for tuberculosis before being moved to facilities with other prisoners. There are about 70,000 registered cases of tuberculosis in this former Soviet republic, mostly former inmates. |
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