Tamil Political Prisoners restart hunger strike

A group of Tamil political prisoners have launched a hunger strike calling on the government to release them without further delay, reports Ceylonews.

In a letter to the Commissioner General of Prisons, they prisoners said that they had been held for several years without charge
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Two prisoners form the Colombo Magazine Prison and two from the Anuradhapura prison said they would continue the hunger strike until a solution was found.

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