Political prisoners denied food

In its bulletin of 9 July the Fray Bartolemew human rights centre reports that prisoners involved in the Voice of Amate and Zapatista Group in the Amate prison in Chiapas are being refused food by the prison authorities. This repression follows the prisoners' restarting, on 26 June, their peaceful protest demonstration (planton) within the prison. The prisoners have been imprisoned because of their political activity in resistance to the authorities and the government.

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