NEW YORK: At least one of the men charged in the bombing of the World Trade Center has gone on a hunger strike to protest oppressive conditions in the Metropolitan Correctional Center where he is being held, his lawyer said Aug.26.
Mohammed A. Salameh, who has been in solitary confinement*for 23 hours a day for the last six months, had refused food and water since Sunday and was “weak and emaciated.” Several other defendants had also refused nourishment Another defense lawyer, Austin Campriello, who represent Ahmad Ajaj, said he had that some of the defendants had gone on a hunger strike but that some of the complaints may have been resolved by the Federal authorities.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 3, 1993
