Former LTTE cadre detained at Magazine prison in Colombo launched a hunger strike on Monday, calling on the authorities to release them from indefinite detention under Sri Lanka's notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The prison officers reported that detainees were refusing to come out of their cells and accept food.
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