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Jailhouse block

Saturday 19 March 1994 00:02 GMT
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More than 100 prisoners have joined a nationwide hunger strike in Portuguese jails to protest at overcrowding and poor conditions, Reuter reports from Lisbon. About 11,000 prisoners are crowded into jails built to hold 7,000.

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