ZAGREB, Sep 3 (Hina) - Jozko Joras who has been on a hunger strike in a Pula prison for 13 days now arrived in the BOLS prison hospital in Zagreb on Tuesday evening.
ZAGREB, Sep 3 (Hina) - Jozko Joras who has been on a hunger strike in
a Pula prison for 13 days now arrived in the BOLS prison hospital in
Zagreb on Tuesday evening. #L#
His transfer to the hospital in Zagreb is a regular procedure in
cases where prisoners embark on a hunger strike for more than ten
days.
The chief of the prison administration, Josip Hehet, denied earlier
for Hina that Joras was transferred due to being physically
exhausted as Slovenia's news agency STA reported quoting Joras'
unofficial attorney Danijel Starman. Hehet said that Joras had lost
7 kilograms in the past 12 days.
During the evening Joras will probably receive a visit from Slovene
Consul to Zagreb Marijan Ristic.
Jozko Joras is a Slovene citizen who denies Croatia's sovereignty
in the Istrian village of Mlini on the Croatian side of the border
where he lives. Several customs fines and seven violations have
been waged in courts since 1999 and because Joras refused to pay
these fines he was taken into custody to serve a 30-day prison
sentence.
Slovenia's Foreign Minister, Dimitrij Rupel, on Monday announced
that Slovenia would advise Joras that because of possible
violations of human rights, Joras could sue Croatia to the Council
of Europe and that logistic and financial assistance was ready.
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