{"article":{"id":8567,"heading":"Crisis in Bolivia","author":"deedee","created":"2001-07-10 11:02:55","modified":"2001-07-10 12:00:01","last_modified":"Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:00:01","article":"<p>n Bolivia today 4000 prisoners in different prisons are on hunger strike. <br>  <br> In the Cochabamba prison several women have gone to the roof of the prison and crucified themselves. The 300 women prisoners threaten to sew their lips together.   In the Santa <br>  <br> Cruz prison 3000 are on hunger strike, many refusing to take liquids.  They are demanding a new sentencing law which the Bolivian Congress is considering and pardons. <br>  <br> The Pastorate has declared: \"The state has imprisoned citizens, the majority of them poor, and imprisoned them for years under the presumption of guilt...\" <br><br> We ask for letters\/phone calls\/protests at Bolivian embassies and consulates. <br><br> Earl Gilman <br>  <br> El Nuevo Topo magazine <br>  <br> Socorro Obrero Sindical <br>  <br> Workers Democracy Network<\/p>\n","contact":"dhalleck@weber.ucsd.edu","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Hunger strikes and Violence in Bolivian Prisons","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/07\/8567.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}