Rabin's assassin threatens conjugal visits hunger strike

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin has threatened to begin a hunger strike if he is not granted conjugal visits with the woman he says he married by proxy, a spokesman for the Israeli Prisons Authority said today.

Yigal Amir, serving a life term for killing then-prime minister Rabin at a peace rally in 1995, recently wrote a letter saying he would begin a hunger strike, but has yet to remove any of the food from his room or refuse to accept meals, said the spokesman, Ofer Lefler.