Hunger Strike Death Toll Grows to 19
From Times Wire Reports
The death toll in Turkey’s months-long prison hunger strike reached 19, as two more people starved to death.
Prisoner Sedat Karakurt, 25, died after a 177-day strike, Turkey’s Human Rights Assn. said. Erdogan Guler, 29, died at his home in Izmir. Guler had been on a sympathy strike for 159 days.
About 250 inmates and many of their relatives have been fasting to protest a new system of smaller cells that inmates say will leave them more vulnerable to beatings.
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