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| 'Shoe-bomber' on hunger strike |
| By timesonline.co.uk |
| Published: 06/10/2009 |
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'Shoe-bomber' Richard Reid on hunger strike in US prison Convicted British ‘shoe-bomber’ terrorist Richard Reid, who was found guilty in 2003 of trying to blow up a transatlantic commercial flight, has been refusing food for several weeks and is being force fed by authorities in a US prison. Reid is currently serving a life sentence in the notorious Supermax prison in Denver, America’s highest-security federal lockup, after he was convicted of trying to ignite two bombs in his shoes while on board a Paris-to-Miami flight on American Airlines. He was subdued by passengers before he could detonate the explosives. Reid, 35, has refused 59 meals since March at the Supermax prison, a federal government lawyer said in court filings. The government attorney, in a previously undisclosed court filing dated April 14, wrote that prison officials determined on April 7 "that medical intervention was necessary" and Reid was being force fed and hydrated. In an updated court filing last Friday, the government attorney wrote that Reid remains on the hunger strike and that prison officials continue to monitor his condition. It is not known if Reid's hunger strike is related to another lawsuit he has filed against prison officials. A spokeswoman at the federal prison headquarters in Washington, DC, said yesterday that the bureau does not comment on the conditions of inmates. The lawsuit filed by Reid, who was born in Bromley, south London, alleges that prison authorities have repeatedly prevented him from following the tenets of his Sunni Muslim faith. A US District Court judge in Denver recently denied the authorities' request to throw out his lawsuit. The Supermax facility houses the most notorious federal inmates including Ramzi Yousef, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, and Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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