Chiapas: Chiapas prisoners held in Tabasco begin hunger strike

In a communiqué released April 21 by the Committee of Ex-Political Prisoners and Their Families and the Commission of Relatives of the Unjustly Imprisoned and Political Prisoners it was reported that Pérez Gutiérrez and Pérez Vázquez, two Zapatista supporters who are being held in the Municipal Public Prisonl of Tacotalpa, Tabasco, were to begin a hunger strike the same day to demand their release.

For more information:

• Tabasco: Detainees still held in the Municipal Public Prison in Tacotalpa, Tabasco (SIPAZ, 04/04/2008)

Communiqué from the relatives of political prisoners and ex-political prisoners in Spanish:

• Comunicado de familiares de presos politicos y ex-presos politicos (21/04/08)