hunger strike.
Revolucién Peruana reports that Hugo Blanco is staging the strike as a protest against the cruel and inhuman measures under which he has been held for three years in the Arequipa prison.
"He is not permitted to receive visits," says. Revolucién Peruana, "not even from his family. His correspondence is minutely checked, a continual arbitrary censorship is placed on what he can read, the judge being an ignorant captain. of. the guard. He is denied medical attention, even dental care."
The publication was unable to say how dong Hugo Blanco intended to continue his hunger strike.
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