Prisoners sew lips together in protest
More than 20 prisoners sewed their lips shut yesterday to pressure officials to release them from Cerro Hueco jail in Mexico.
A spokesman for the prisoners, Rafael Sanchez, said the group took the action because more than half of the jail’s prisoners had been released.
The majority were sympathisers of the Zapatista rebels, who staged an uprising in Chiapas on January 1, 1994, in the name of Indian rights and autonomy.
The Zapatista sympathisers were released as part of conditions set by the rebels to restart peace talks with the Government.
