convicted rapist has died after five months on hunger strike in Teruel, despite being force fed by judicial order since March.
Tohuami Hamdaoui, a 41 year old from Morocco, entered prison in Alicante in February 2009 after he was sentenced to 16 years for robbery and sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl. He was transferred to Teruel in May 2010 and began his hunger strike in February this year to demand that his case be revised, maintaining that he was innocent of the charges for which he had been convicted.
He was admitted to hospital when his health became worse, where El País reports that he would try to remove the feeding tubes from his body. Prison psychologists were unable to convince him to give up his protest, and a relative who the prisons department located in France and who travelled over to Spain was also unsuccessful.
Tohuami Hamdaoui died at Teruel’s Obispo Polanco Hospital on Sunday morning.
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