From: "Curtis Price" <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org>
Date:          Sat, 28 Jun 1997 11:06:37 +0000
Subject:       (Fwd) Peru controls large prison riot, one inmate dead


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Date:          Fri, 27 Jun 1997 01:13:20 -0700
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Subject:       Peru controls large prison riot, one inmate dead



NewsHound article from "RIOTS" hound, score "92."



Peru controls large prison >>riot<<, one inmate dead   LIMA (Reuter) - One
Peruvian prisoner was killed and at least one other suffered a gunshot
wound when about 3,000 inmates >>rioted<< for five hours Friday at a
maximum security jail in Lima, authorities said.

Police and government negotiators persuaded the prisoners to give up their
protest at about 5 p.m. local time in return for some improvements in their
living conditions.

``The >>riot<< is completely over,'' said Congress' human rights committee
president Daniel Espichan as he left the prison. ``One man died from a
bullet fired when police tried to calm things down.''

Espichan said one prisoner was injured, but an inmate who identified
himself as ``Africa'' claimed four were hurt. He was speaking via telephone
with a local radio station from inside the jail.

About 300 police entered the San Pedro prison after the >>riot<< broke out
at midday, firing tear gas and guns as a helicopter flew overhead.

But about 2,000 inmates stayed on the prison roof throughout the afternoon,
burning mattresses and shouting anti-police slogans.

The San Pedro jail, with a long history of >>violence<<, houses 5,200
prisoners, most of whom are awaiting trial. The prisoners said they were
protesting for better conditions and against the alleged kidnapping of one
of their leaders.

Improvements in prison conditions was one of the main demands made by the
Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) during the recent Lima
hostage crisis that ended with the rebels' deaths during a military raid in
April.



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