The Financial Times reported this weekend that Volkert van der Graaf, the animal rights activist and alleged assassin of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, has gone on a hunger strike to protest is prison conditions.

According to his lawyer, van der Graaf is being held in solitary confinement and monitored via video camera in a cell that is lighted 24 hours a day.

Dutch prison authorities say they have taken such measures because they are afraid van der Graaf will try to commit suicide.

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Fortuyn suspect on hunger strike. Ian Bickerton, July 14, 2002.