>Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" Fascism and Police working together in Turkey >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Police clamp down on prisoners in Ankara > > >ANKARA, Dec 12: At least five people were injured and 66 were detained on >Tuesday when Turkish riot police violently clamped down on two rival >groups of protesters demonstrating here over controversial prison >reforms, the Anatolia news agency reported. > ><Our coment: all people arrested are non-fascist> > >Violence erupted when police refused to allow some 300 protestors to >march from Kizilay square in downtown Ankara to the nearby justice >ministry to protest planned prison reform, which has prompted a >nationwide hunger strike in the country's troubled jails. > >When the group, mainly prisoners' relatives, refused to disperse, >truncheon-wielding police officers moved in on the protestors and used >water cannons and tear gas to end the protest, Anatolia said. > >Footage broadcast on the all-news NTV channel showed riot police hitting >and kicking protestors, including women, who had fallen down during the >melee. > >Two journalists, two police officers and an unspecified number of >protestors were injured during the clashes, Anatolia added. > >Meanwhile, a second group of protestors, making the signs of the infamous >extreme-right "Grey Wolves" youth movement and chanting slogans in favour >of the prison reform, attacked the anti-reform protestors, who >retaliated. > >The two groups threw stones and attacked each other with metal bars for >two hours, after which riot police, helped by dogs, moved in to separate >them, the agency said. > >The windows of some shops, public buildings and cars were also smashed >during the fighting, while some shopkeepers opted to close their business >for the day, Anatolia said. > >NTV said that officers once again resorted to water cannons and even >fired shots into the air to restore calm. > >Once police had arrived, the anti-reform protestors took refuge in the >buildings of two minor left-wing parties, whose windows were stoned by >the other group. > >Police later searched the party buildings and detained 66 people, the >report said. > >Tension over the government's much-disputed prison reform has been >increasing since more than 200 prisoners went on a hunger strike 54 days >ago to protest the plans. > >The plan involves the opening of new jails with cells for up to three >people, replacing the existing large dormitories that sleep up to 60 >prisoners. > >The prisoners fear that being split up will socially and physically >isolate them and may lead to maltreatment and torture. > >Source: AFP > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey >http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
