Moroccan Islamist prisoners "in danger" during hunger strike | TopNews Law
Moroccan Islamist prisoners “in danger” during hunger strike | TopNews Law
Casablanca, Morocco – Families of Moroccan hunger-striking Islamist prisoners demonstrated Tuesday in front of Casablanca’s Oukacha prison, saying that the lives of more than 50 inmates were in danger.
The inmates have been on hunger strike for two months over the deterioration of their prison conditions.
“Their lives are seriously in danger,” Abderrahim Mouhtade, president of the association Annassir that defends them, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Some of the inmates have been hospitalized.
The inmates say their prison conditions have deteriorated, with the prison authorities refusing to grant them any concessions after nine Islamists escaped from a prison in Kenitra near Rabat in April.
The nine had been convicted of links with the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings that killed 45 people. One of them was caught a week later, while the others are still on the run. dpa