Inmates of other prisons join the Magazine protesters

Feb 29, 2016

Inmates of other prisons assisting the inmates of the Magazine prison, who started a hunger strike on the 23rd has jointly started an island wide token hunger strike today 29th.

13 Political prisoners including a female who has taken into custody in 2013,2014 and 2015 period and still not filed charges has been indulged in this hunger strike at the Magazine prisons.

Female inmate Ravindran Madani, Nadesh Kuganadan, Dewasahayam Udayakumar, Joseph Sebastian, Nadesan Dharmarasa, Sivasubramaniam Thillairaj, Augustian Gnanaseelan, Muththusiwam Seelanadhan, Subramaniam Kapilan, Rasathurai Thiruwaran, Makan Nimnadhan, Dayabaran, Kuruwalthambi Dewanayagam and Balasingham Manoharan has been indulged in a hunger strike for about a week.

Assisting them, inmates of other prisons too have started a token hunger strike urging the authorities to resolve the problem of these political prisoners through a political solution.