(Statement: 370, 27th September 2001)

ALI RIZA DEMIR HAS LOST HIS LIFE ON THE 343RD DAY OF THE DEATH FAST ACTION.

Ali Riza Demir was born in 1973 in Adiyaman. He was of Kurdish nationality.

He was imprisoned in 1994, while studying at the textile engineering section of the engineering faculty at the Technical University of Istanbul.

He was a prisoner in the DHKP-C trial and was tried and given the death penalty. After the operation of 19th December he was transferred from Umraniye prison to Kandira F-type prison. When he was brought to the State hospital of Izmir for forced medical intervention he resisted and refused the treatment.

He was released during the conditional discharges that have been applied by the state in order to finish the Death Fast action. He continued his death fast action in Armutlu, Istanbul.

With the death of Ali Riza Demir the number of those who have lost their lives, inside and outside of the prisons, against the F Type prisons has reached 70.

In these days when the 7th team of Death Fast fighters has started in the prisons, the demands have to be fulfilled without delay and deaths have to be stopped.