Aid worker on hunger strike

Pristina - Jailed British aid worker, Sally Becker (37), has started a hunger strike in Kosovo's only women's prison to protest…

Pristina - Jailed British aid worker, Sally Becker (37), has started a hunger strike in Kosovo's only women's prison to protest against the conflict in the province, the Belgrade press reported yesterday. Becker, co-founder of the British humanitarian agency Operation Angel, was sentenced to a month in jail last week after being arrested by the Yugoslav army trying to smuggle a refugee family into Albania.

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