Barbecues to tempt hunger strikers

[eSJayBee]

Barbecues to tempt hunger strikers

source (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1062713.html?menu=)

Israel is threatening to barbecue meat outside the cells of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners to break their spirit.

Some 1,700 Palestinian inmates are on hunger strike for better prison conditions and more family visits, reports The Daily Star in Lebanon.

But the Israeli Prisons Service is refusing to meet the conditions and is threatening action to break the strikers' spirit.

"Among the various methods we plan to employ is holding barbecues outside the walls of the affected prisons," an Israeli Prisons Service spokesman said.

The hunger strike was praised by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat who has been confined to his West Bank compound for months.



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this is just plain EVIL

[Amirius]

That is just wicked EVIL and twisted. Thats totally inhumane.

[Captain Bryan]

I find it sorta funny...:)

[Drakon]

Damn, thats fighting really evil.


Funny, but its still dirty pool.

[DragnFire22]

OMG, that's hilarious and ingenius.

They are prisoners! They should get worse conditions for acting up :p

[Movies205]

It ingenius, there torturing prisoners without actually giving them bodily harm! :)

[eSJayBee]

I never heard of prisoners going on strikes before, really. :|

But yea, this is rather ingenius.

[Captain Bryan]

Originally posted by eSJayBee
I never heard of prisoners going on strikes before, really. :|

But yea, this is rather ingenius. I bet it happens, and we just don't hear about it, because if the prisoners got wind of it, it might happen more often..

[Scheherezade]

Would that be considered cruel and unusual punishment here, or just weird...?

[Captain Bryan]

I don't think it would be because the hunger strike is volontary, the people are just having the BBQ in hopes to get them to eat.

[eSJayBee]

Originally posted by Scheherezade
Would that be considered cruel and unusual punishment here, or just weird...?
this is a rather odd situation, isn't it? Technically, the punishment would be depriving these prisoners of food. But they're actually TRYING to get the prisoners to eat. Then again, it may be in fear of this hunger strike actually getting them to cave in and meet the prisoners' demands for better conditions and so on.

[Amirius]

Either way, it's going to be a long road of red tape for the personel of that prison once this is over.

[Drakon]

Originally posted by Amirius
Either way, it's going to be a long road of red tape for the personel of that prison once this is over. You said a mouthful.