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| Turkish Prisoner Starves to Death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/26/2001 |
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The first of more than 250 inmates protesting prison transfers starved to death on recently, on the 60th day of his hunger strike, a prisoners' support group said. The inmate, Cengiz Soydas, 28, a member of the armed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, died at Ankara's Sincan prison, the spokesman said. Prisoners linked to the front launched a hunger strike campaign in November to protest plans to transfer them from their dormitory-style wards to new prisons of one-or three-person cells, where they fear abuse by officers. Soldiers raided 20 prisons in December to end the hunger strike and transfer about 1,000 inmates to new prisons. Several of the inmates died after setting themselves on fire. |
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