Algerian prisoners in Libya started hunger strike

Algerian prisoners in Libya begun Thursday, ahunger strike, while four kept silent as protest against the Libyan authorities’ refusal to transfer them to the Algerian prisons.

• About 20 female prisoners called for the Libyan and Algerian authorities in order to accept exchanging prisoners.
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• Sources from Al Djadida prison in Tripoli told Echorouk in a phone call that about 80 Algerian prisoners, mostly sentenced to life imprisonment begun a hunger strike, including female prisoners sentenced of two and three years imprisonment, in order to push the Algerian and Libyan authorities to activate the deal on exchanging prisoners.
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• The prison of Al Djadida in Tripoli, Libya contains 62 prisoners and about 18 Algerian female prisoners, some of them sentenced to life imprisonment and others sentenced to three years imprisonment.