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KABUL, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Over 70 inmates at Afghanistan’s main high-security jail have stitched their mouths shut and gone on a hunger strike, national media said on Monday.
The incident at the Pul-i-Charkhi jail comes four days after inmates of cellblock 4, where Taliban militants are held, rioted against the decision of NATO officers to take some of them away for interrogation. The Taliban militants claimed that they would be executed without trial.
At present, cellblocks 2, 3 and 7 of the jail are protesting against the “poor conditions” in which they are being held and the apparent arrests of some of their relatives who had come to the prison for a visit.
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