Two Prisoners Die in Hunger Strike
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Two Turkish inmates who had refused solid food for months died over the weekend, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported, the latest deaths in a hunger strike that has claimed at least 60 lives.
Hundreds of leftist prisoners launched the strike in 2000 in an attempt to force the government to abandon plans to transfer inmates from old dormitory wards to cell-based jails, which they say put prisoners at greater risk of torture. The government argues the new jails are in line with European standards.
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