Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: In prison Daud [Turki] led hunger strikes

of prisoners to win basic rights but when a policewoman greeted him normally with "Good Morning" he wrote her a poem. I don't think there is another prisoner anywhere who wrote a poem to a prison warden.

Daud was freed after 12 years in prison by the prisoner-exchange deal with Ahmed Gibril in 1984. He returned to his home in Wadi Nisnas in Haifa and continued to write revolutionary poetry which was broadcast by the "Voice of the People" Communist Radio station in Lebanon.

from Alternative Information Center: Euolgy to Daud Turki

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