AP. 14 September 2001. Turkish Prisoner Dies in Hunger Strike. ANKARA, Turkey -- A former prisoner starved to death Friday, becoming the 34th hunger striker to die in a months-long protest by inmates opposed to Turkey's new high-security prison system. Umus Sahingoz, a 32-year old member of the banned Marxist group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front died Friday in a house in an Istanbul suburb where about a dozen other left-wing militants are also fasting, the prisoner support group Ozgur Tayad said. Sahingoz had served time at an Istanbul prison for breaching Turkey's anti-terrorism laws but was released in July. The prisoners and their supporters began fasting last year to protest the prisoners' transfers from large, dormitory-style wards to prisons with one- or three-person cells. Prisoners say the new prison system leaves them isolated and vulnerable to beatings from guards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
