230 additional asylum seekers begin hunger strike
An additional 230 asylum seekers being held in the Saharonim prison in the south have returned their breakfasts and announced that they are beginning a hunger strike.
Earlier it was reported that the jail had begun transferring the 170 prisoners already hunger-striking to other cells and in some cases, other jails, including those reserved for criminal offenders. In wake of the move, some 54 foreigners quit the strike. (Raanan Ben-Zur)
