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SENEGAL – 21 prisoners evacuated following their hunger strike

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The Front pour une révolution anti-imperialiiste populaire et panafricaine (FRAPP) reports that 21 prisoners of the House of Arrest and Correction in Mbour (West) have been evacuated to the hospital, after their hunger strike started Monday, May 1, 2023 to protest in particular against “lengthy preventive detention”.

The FRAPP National Executive Secretariat (SEN) reports that the health of the hunger strikers in the Mbour prison is deteriorating. On hunger strike since Monday to protest against “the long preventive detentions, the discriminatory policy of the Criminal Chamber of Mbour” 21 hunger strikers have been evacuated of which 04 in serious condition and two suicide attempts,” reads a statement

As a reminder, the residents of the House of Arrest and Correction of Mbour started a hunger strike on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, refusing their breakfast ration. All the loaves have been returned. At least that’s what FRAPP tells us. In a communiqué sent, the National Executive Secretariat (SEN) of the FRAPP indicates that all defendants from 2018 to 2019 are on hunger strike. The reasons for their hunger strike: long preventive detentions, discriminatory policy of the Criminal Chamber of Mbour and non-compliance with commitments. However, CLDR expresses its deep concern. After the prisons of Gossas, Koutal, today it is the prisoners of Mbour who are on hunger strike. The FRAPP once again challenges the Minister of Justice and President Macky Sall on inhuman and degrading prison conditions.

       

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