Pris­on­ers de­tained at Teteron Bar­racks and Staubles Bay in Ch­aguara­mas em­barked on a hunger strike yes­ter­day and have vowed to keep it up un­til they are re­moved from the fa­cil­i­ties, which they say are un­fit for hu­man oc­cu­pa­tion.

Ac­cus­ing prison and po­lice of­fi­cials of em­ploy­ing “psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare tac­tics” to break them, the 11 in­mates said, “We want the Gov­ern­ment to re­turn us to reg­u­lar de­ten­tion and re­move us from mil­i­tary de­ten­tion.”

The hunger strike be­gan with the pris­on­ers re­fus­ing break­fast and con­tin­ued through­out the day with re­fusals of lunch and din­ner.