This is a press release on the 27th day of a hunger strike in Seven Sisters, Haringey, London. It is one of a number of similar protests in Europe against prison repression in Turkey. It is to continue for 45 days, and a rally is planned outside the hunger strike tent on Saturday the 24th.
PRESS RELEASE, JANUARY 17, 2004
27TH DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE NEAR SEVEN SISTERS UNDERGROUND STATION, LONDON
RALLY OUTSIDE HUNGER STRIKE TENT, 2 PM SATURDAY JANUARY 24
Over three years ago (in December 2000), the government of Turkey sent in thousands of soldiers and police into over 20 of the country's prisons. The aim was to force inmates into new F-Type isolation prisons. 28 prisoners were killed and hundreds wounded during this process. Hunger strikes in protest at the attack and against extreme forms of prison isolation have continued since then. In all, 107 people have lost their lives opposing the prison policies of Turkey's government, and the deaths are continuing.
Protests have continued outside prisons as well, and also outside Turkey in countries like Britain which have a significant Turkish-speaking minority. A 45-day hunger strike in a tent started on December 22 near Seven Sisters underground, at the junction of High Road with Seven Sisters. Several people there are on hunger strike throughout this period, while others are on hunger strike for shorter lengths of time. The aim is to increase public awareness of the highly oppressive prison policies of Turkey's government and to register opposition. Despite a racist stabbing of one of the Seven Sisters hunger strikers on January 6, he and the others will pursue the protest to the end.
A rally outside the tent is to take place at 2 pm, Saturday January 24. Progressive-minded groups and individuals are welcome to participate to show solidarity. For state oppression and isolation imprisonment is not confined to Turkey, as we have seen in the case of the Guantanamo detainees in US-occupied Cuba and the Belmarsh detainees in this country, to cite just two of many other examples.
HOC (Front for Rights and Freedoms)
Contact details: 07765 165491
Or 07966 739061
or e-mails:
Steve_Kaczynski@web.de
hoc@post.com
27TH DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE NEAR SEVEN SISTERS UNDERGROUND STATION, LONDON
RALLY OUTSIDE HUNGER STRIKE TENT, 2 PM SATURDAY JANUARY 24
Over three years ago (in December 2000), the government of Turkey sent in thousands of soldiers and police into over 20 of the country's prisons. The aim was to force inmates into new F-Type isolation prisons. 28 prisoners were killed and hundreds wounded during this process. Hunger strikes in protest at the attack and against extreme forms of prison isolation have continued since then. In all, 107 people have lost their lives opposing the prison policies of Turkey's government, and the deaths are continuing.
Protests have continued outside prisons as well, and also outside Turkey in countries like Britain which have a significant Turkish-speaking minority. A 45-day hunger strike in a tent started on December 22 near Seven Sisters underground, at the junction of High Road with Seven Sisters. Several people there are on hunger strike throughout this period, while others are on hunger strike for shorter lengths of time. The aim is to increase public awareness of the highly oppressive prison policies of Turkey's government and to register opposition. Despite a racist stabbing of one of the Seven Sisters hunger strikers on January 6, he and the others will pursue the protest to the end.
A rally outside the tent is to take place at 2 pm, Saturday January 24. Progressive-minded groups and individuals are welcome to participate to show solidarity. For state oppression and isolation imprisonment is not confined to Turkey, as we have seen in the case of the Guantanamo detainees in US-occupied Cuba and the Belmarsh detainees in this country, to cite just two of many other examples.
HOC (Front for Rights and Freedoms)
Contact details: 07765 165491
Or 07966 739061
or e-mails:
Steve_Kaczynski@web.de hoc@post.com 
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Food Glorious Food
19.01.2004 21:30
Fagin
Novels are different from films
20.01.2004 10:43
In the novel, if my memory serves me right, at the end Fagin is alone in a prison cell, quaking with fear at the thought of his imminent execution. The Fagin here is just as courageous.
Cynically Red
You Have Incorrect Memory
20.01.2004 15:24
Other so called hunger strikes held outside Finsbury Park by Manor House and in Stoke Newington it was the same old story, someone claimed not to have eaten for nearly 69 days, who you trying to kid, they switch places every couple of nights its been witnessed by several people in the past, so pull the other one its got bells on.
Fagin
Fagin
20.01.2004 16:11
You obviously watch films FAR more than you read books.
Your first e-mail was obviously in the spirit of "they're on hunger strike - who cares?" When I gently corrected you and called you a coward, you switched methods and claimed they're secretly eating. Ballocks. Because I've visited the tent and even stayed there and nobody on hunger strike is eating. Some are on the full 45 days, some are on hunger strike for shorter periods.
I must say I enjoy this discussion with a Dickens character of particular moral worthlessness, though.
Cynically Red