81.   Conspicuously absent from the pages of The Washington Post on Wednesday were bylines on nearly all articles, as journalists protested working conditions at the newspaper.

82.   The opposition leader said the violence began when dozens of prisoners went on hunger strike to protest poor conditions.

83.   The strike was called by air hostesses and stewards in the SNPNC union to protest working conditions.

84.   The strikers were protesting prison conditions of the mainly Kurdish inmates.

85.   The wave of attacks is being linked to a hunger strike by leftist prisoners in Turkey to protest living conditions.

86.   The United States offered regrets Thursday for the death of six hunger strikers protesting conditions in Turkish prisons but said it was an domestic matter.

87.   Italian controllers have gone on strike regularly in recent months to renegotiate their collective agreement and to protest working conditions and what they call a chronic lack of personnel.

88.   Last month Chamari went on hunger strike for more than two weeks to protest his conditions in a Tunis jail.

89.   On Monday a variety of Maltese organisations held a silent march protesting human rights conditions in China, nuclear testing by Beijing and the status of Tibet.

90.   Ousted Sao Tome and Principe President Miguel Trovoada began a hunger strike Friday to protest the conditions in which he is being held, his son Youri said.