Political prisoners in Yangon's Insein prison on hunger strike

 

 

 

Political prisoners in Myanmar’s notorious Insein Prison have been staging a hunger strike since Feb. 1. An attorney told RFA that 149 prisoners are abstaining from eating the meals served at the prison and only consuming some dried foods brought in from the outside to keep themselves alive.

 

Sources close to the prisoners said this is the third prison strike since the military coup a year ago. Authorities responded to previous strikes by beating the prisoners, denying them medical care, and putting them in solitary confinement, the sources said. A spokesperson for Myanmar’s military government denied to RFA that a hunger strike was occurring.

 

RFA