21.   A hunger strike by refugees protesting harsh conditions at their detention center and delays in processing asylum claims has spread to a second center, refugee advocates announced Wednesday.

22.   A second prisoner has died of effects of a hunger strike that is being staged in prisons around Turkey to protest conditions, the Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday.

23.   A union secretary said the crews are protesting work conditions under which employees work tiring schedules but are not guaranteed regular employment.

24.   Abella said the youths were not political dissidents, and implied they were protesting economic conditions.

25.   Also Thursday, a small group of youths protesting living conditions smashed bottles and threw rocks on a main street in the central commercial town of Salem.

26.   Also Thursday, Tupac Amaru inmates at a Lima jail shouted slogans protesting prison conditions and draped banners supporting the hostage-takers from a roof.

27.   Berenson, who went on a two-week hunger strike earlier this year to protest prison conditions, has maintained her innocence.

28.   Both the IRA and pro-British extremists have smuggled in weaponry as part of their efforts to protest conditions or to attempt escapes.

29.   Both groups have rioted to protest conditions and demand their freedom.

30.   But his waffling comments at the British Masters came two weeks after he threatened to walk out of a tournament in Switzerland to protest the conditions of the greens.