Knežević called on the Bar Association not to go to trials until the detainees' conditions are met

Detained businessman Duško Knežević called on the Bar Association not to go to trials until the conditions of detainees on hunger strike are met.

"Vijesti" announced three days ago that 174 detainees in the Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions had gone on a hunger strike.

Knežević, who was remanded in custody by the High Court in Podgorica on April 30th last year after the United Kingdom extradited him to Montenegro, supported the strike that was started on April 11th by detainees at the Spuž Remand Prison.

According to a statement from lawyer Dražen Medojević, which was provided to the media by the Atlas Group, Knežević supported the detainees' strike and all their demands, because "the conditions in the prison are unbearable and do not meet European standards."

Knežević, as announced, will not participate in the hunger strike because "after five years of house arrest in England and a year of solitary confinement in Spuž," his health is "severely impaired and he is under intensive medical therapy."

"I appeal to the Bar Association to support the strike and not to go to trials until the detainees' conditions are met," said Knežević, as written in the statement.