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| More than 300 Russian Inmates Boycott Jail Food to Protest Rules |
| By AP |
| Published: 09/20/2002 |
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More than 300 inmates of a pretrial detention center in southern Russia have been boycotting the prison food in an attempt to convince the administration to soften certain rules, officials said Thursday. Ilya Kolubelov, spokesman for the Justice Ministry's penal department, said 340 inmates at a jail in the city of Astrakhan were taking part in the protest, which began Tuesday. He said it could not be considered a hunger strike since the protesters were refusing to eat jail food, but were eating food brought to them by relatives. The inmates were demanding that they be allowed to cook in their cells, take medicine without a doctor's permission and receive books from outside the jail's library, Kolubelov said. He said ministry officials were trying to explain to the protesters that their demands were unacceptable. The ITAR-Tass news agency, citing prisoners' relatives, said the inmates were actually protesting poor conditions in the jail, which the agency said was built 285 years ago. Russia's pretrial detention centers are notoriously overcrowded, with many inmates forced to sleep in shifts. Many of the jails date from the czarist era. |
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