31st Hunger Striker Dies in Prison Protest
From Times Wire Reports
A former Turkish prisoner on a hunger strike has died, raising to 31 the death toll in the months-long protest against Turkey’s new maximum-security prisons, a human rights group said.
Osman Osmanagaoglu, 44, died Tuesday at a private home in Istanbul after fasting for 299 days, the Human Rights Assn. said. He had been released from prison in June for health reasons after serving time for belonging to a banned leftist group, an association official said.
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