Brussels, 21/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The forceful intervention by the forces of law and order (that left some twenty people dead) in prisons that were literally taken by assault on Tuesday and Wednesday to put an end to the hunger strike begun by prisoners to secure the annulment of transfers to other prisons planned by the government, has led to different reactions.
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Lord Russell-Johnston, made the following statement:...