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Vegan inmate Osman Evcan has ended his hunger strike on its 44th day after his requests have been accepted by the prison administration.

Osman Evcan’s lawyer, who visited Evcan in prison, has stated that 60-year-old Evcan has fallen to 54 kilos and his health condition is worsening. Evcan has been in isolation for two years.

Osman Evcan, who has gone on hunger strike for four times before and has managed to add vegan-vegetarian food article to Food Regulation for Convicted and Imprisoned, has announced that he has been on hunger strike again since March 26.

Right defenders will keep watch in front of Silivri Prison every day at 6 p.m. until Osman Evcan who has been on hunger strike for 35 days will be granted right to vegan nutrition.

Vegan prisoner Evcan is not being given vegan food in the prison he has been transferred. Demands of Evcan going on hunger strike for the fourth time are being sheltered in humanitarian conditions, and get vegetables such as potato, cauliflower from the canteen.

CHP MP Şenal Sarıhan, has visited the convicted vegan Osman Evcan who has been on hunger strike for 39 days and has asked the Minister of Justice about Evcan’s cellmate, Hasan Çınar, to support him.

Tamer Korkmaz staying in the same prison as convicted Osman Evcan staging a hunger strike due to not being given vegan food over 37 days wrote that Evcan has entered risky days, and added that “Ministry of Justice and prison administration is silent”.

Vegan prisoner Osman Evcan as to his right to nourishment being arbitrarily restrained by prison administration is on hunger strike since November 10, demonstration before prison is on Saturday.