Narinjara News
Akyab, March 29
Prisoner’s food inadequate in
Prisoners in the police detention center of Akyab do not receive enough food every day from the police
department because of a lack of financial support by the authorities, said a
former prisoner who was recently released from Akyab
police detention center.
As the food and water in the police detention center is
inadequate, the prisoners have to get food and water from outside the jail by
offering bribes to the police officers.
"In the police detention center of Akyab
there is not enough food and water for prisoners. Therefore we had to get food
and water from outside. My family has to give 500 Burmese
kyat to police officers for food and 200 kyat for a bath whenever they
bring food and water for me," he explained.
The police serve a single plate of food to the prisoners at
a time, but the food is not enough for the prisoners. They are only served food
two times a day in all the jails of
"In the Akyab police
detention center there are 49 prisoners, along with me, but the police do not
bring enough food for us. Sometimes they only brought 19 plates of rice to
us," he said.
Most prisoners from the rural areas are suffering the most,
in the terrible pain because of the lack of adequate food in the jails, and
they do not have relatives in Akyab to make up for
it.
Prisoner numbers in the Buthi Daung and Maung Daw police detention centers are quite
large and food is always needed for the many prisoners. Some of the police
wives often ask for left over food from the police families, for the prisoners,
said a prisoner relative from Maungdaw.
According to a police source, there is about
20 Burmese kyat allotted for a prisoner's food per day, an amount that is not
even enough to buy an egg. #
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