Inmates of Russian penal colony on hunger strike | Russia | RIA Novosti

By: Russian News and Information Agency, November 3, 2005 MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - The penitentiary department of the Smolensk Region in Northwest Russia said Thursday that 26 inmates at a local penal colony had gone on a hunger strike. Some of the inmates deliberately slit their wrists, department head Igor Konovalov said. "The inmates wanted to [cause] disorder [in] the penitentiary and make the administration weaken the regime," he said. DD 11.04.2005

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