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A composite photograph of the Kurdish activists on hunger strike
FIVE activists who claim to have been tortured in Iraqi Kurdistan have started a hunger strike as they demanded to meet lawyers and representatives from the United Nations today.
Mihemed Naci Sadiq, a member of the opposition Goran Movement, was detained on December 9 in the Shiladze district of Duhok province, which is currently under severe bombardment from Turkish jets.
Five days later Kovan Tariq Cibrail, Yusuf Sharif Ibrahim, Ahmed Yusuf Mistefa, and Nechirvan Bedih Haci were also taken into custody and have been held for the past 17 months without trial.
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
