Thursday, December 4, 2014

Hunger Strike In IvoryCoast






More than 481 political prisoners and their spouses are currently observing an open-ended hunger strike in defense of basic human rights: The right not to be detained without charge or trial. 
These political prisoners began a mass, open-ended hunger strike in a number of Ivorian jails on Monday in protest against being held without charge or trial. Several  prisoners of opinions have been on hunger strike for more than 4 days and have been widely reported to be "near death.
The hunger strikers unanimously echoed  the hunger strike declaration of Tiananmen Square of June 1989, telling the local opposition media, "we are not in search of death, we are looking for real life". 


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