PRISON STRIKE
Objections To Mixing (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) MADRID, May 19. About 100 political prisoners in Carabanchel Prison, Madrid, are staging a hunger strike to demand the removal of' 35 of their number from cells occupied by criminals. The strike began four days ago, after protests against the “morality” classes the prisoners were ordered to take after failing to attend Sunday Masses.
The classes were first given by a criminal, and then by a prison officer, it is said. Last Wednesday, the political prisoners sent ip a chorus of coughing to drown the speaker at a class attended by the prison governor. The governor ordered them back to their cells, but that night about 35 of them were taken from their cells, dressed only in pyjamas, and put in different parts of the prison occupied by criminals and sexual perverts.
Next day the 35 men began a hunger strike, and were soon joined by other political prisoners. They are drinking water, but have refused to eat until they are taken back to the political gallery of the prison.
Most of the prisoners concerned are members of an underground workers’ movement, jointly led by Left-wing Roman Catholics and Communists, which is campaigning for independent trade unions in Spain and other reforms.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31992, 20 May 1969, Page 15
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