The 32-year-old has served 11 years of a 20-year sentence for fatally stabbing a Bulgarian law student during a brawl. 9News
for 33 days in protest at the unfair treatment he suffered for his role in the Bulgarian Prisoners' Rehabilitation Association, the country's first prisoner advocacy union.
Palfreeman's lawyer Kalin Angelov said the hunger strike was in response to Bulgarian authorities cracking down on the Australian for exposing corruption in the country's prison system and the abuse of inmates. Mr Angelov said his client had been sacked from his prison job, banned from receiving visitors and denied access to phone cards to contact the outside world.
At one point, his lawyer claimed, Palfreeman was also moved from a low-security facility to the Sofia Prison hospital's infectious disease unit, where he was kept with tuberculosis patients in an attempt at "deliberate infection". His father Simon Palfreeman said the family, from Newcastle, hoped to be reunited with him as soon as possible.
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