1.   Political prisoners are demanding financial compensation.

2.   Prisoners were demanding improvements in medical treatment, work opportunities and food.

3.   Prisoners demanded political status and refused to wear prison clothes, wrapping themselves in blankets and smearing their cells with excrement.

4.   They said Wei told them that he had been using tools in the common area when another prisoner demanded that a screwdriver be returned.

5.   Prisoners demanded to be taken by bus to townships around Port Elizabeth and said they would release the guard when freed.

6.   But Eckert said other prisoners would demand equal treatment if Leeson had more familial visits.

7.   Deputy Interior Minister Alberto Reconco Venegas told reporters the prisoners were demanding the immediate release of the prison director, who has been jailed since December.

8.   He said allowing Padilla to continue working in prison would cause other prisoners to demand that they be given similar privileges.

9.   Prisoners also demanded better living conditions and the dismissal of management and abusive guards.

10.   Prisoners were demanding to be transfered.