31.   But the paper said the attacker had earlier unsuccessfully tried to bit the nose of a prison doctor.

32.   Cortazar said prison doctors have ensured that all the inmates staging hunger strikes were not endangering their health.

33.   Dahamshe said prison doctors were apparently reluctant to carry out the operation.

34.   He has been examined by a prison doctor, but requests for an examination by an English-speaking or American doctor have been denied.

35.   He suffered from high blood pressure, which alarmed the prison doctor, but had been treated only with aspirin, Cheri Pope said.

36.   He suggested that prison doctors who have said Pope is healthy have ignored the cancer concern.

37.   In July, prison authorities turned down a request for their transfer to a hospital after a prison doctor said they were in good physical condition.

38.   Liu also suffers from growths in his colon and rectum, high blood pressure and rectal bleeding, conditions that prison doctors say require surgery, Chu said.

39.   Njoloma, who was alleged to have been party to an abortive military coup plot, was said by prison doctors to have died of malaria.

40.   Presiding Judge Nina Barkina had adjourned the closed-door hearing Friday and asked prison doctors to examine Pope.