peasant leaders who had beon arrested by the Peruvian government on charges of having led the armed land—seigure struggle have won victory in their hunger strike in tho central prison in the city of Cuzco. The local police and judicial authorities have been forced to rolease then, These peasant leaders wero arrested by the Peruvian government after the large scale land-seizure movement waged by the peasants last winter and spring in Cuzco province in South-Zast Peru, ‘Cuzco peasants had held meetings demanding the immediate release of their leaders,
Earlier 610 prisoners in the same prison had also waged a hunger—strike in support of the peasant leaders. The land seizure struggle in Cusco province was still going on until recently. Ed, Note: This item acme in Hsinhua of August 27th end gave no details “? of which peasant leaders had beon reloased, Earlier reports
said that the leaders of the Peruvian Communist Party had beon
released.