Pan Armenian News

ARMENIAN PILOTS STARVE IN GUINEAN PRISON

15.04.2005 03:11

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The prisoners of the Black Beach jail, including the
Armenian pilots may die from starvation as the jail administration decided
to cut the daily ration of the prisoners, RFE/RF reported. Tortures and
chronic diseases have exhausted the prisoners. `If immediate measures are
not taken many of them will die’, Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty
International’s Africa Program said. 7 prisoners, 6 of who are the Armenian
pilots are in a grave condition now. According to the chairman of the World
Congress of Armenians Ara Abrahamian, he succeeding in conveying $500 to the
Armenian pilots and they received medical aid. `Presently the state of
health of the Armenian pilots is satisfactory and they hope to return home
till June 12′, A. Abrahamian noted adding that the negotiations are
proceeding very hard. To remind, the Armenian pilots are accused of an
attempt of coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea and were sentenced to long-term
imprisonment last November.