Death row prisoners in Tanzania have entered the fifth day of a hunger strike saying their human rights are being violated. More than 15 inmates at Ukonga maximum security prison in Dar es Salaam complain of a poor diet and severe beatings in overcrowded cells. Ukonga prisons, on the outskirts of Tanzania's main commercial city, is home to more than 3,000 inmates. Of these, 90 have been waiting for more than 20 years to be hanged, after the courts found them guilty of murder.
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