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Mar. 27 Raf'- member dies after a Two - Month Hunger - Strike : Holger Meins (33), a member of the anarchist Raf (Red Army Group), to which also Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader belonged, died in Jail after a two - month hunger strike. He and the other members of this group being in prison (altogether 34), had been on hunger - strike since September 13th, to protest against their conditions of confinement. The lawayers of Holger Meins has brought a criminal charge on October 15th, saying that the forcible feeding did not suffice to keep their mandator a live. Holger Meins had been arrested on June 1st, 1972 together with Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe in Frankfurt. They and other members of the group have been accused of several cases of murder, tempered murder, bomb laying and bank robbery. Our picture Holger Meins, shortly after his arrest in 1972
