14 more political prisoners on a fast!

- Feb 23, 2016

Fourteen political prisoners being detained at Colombo’s Magazine Prison started a fast this morning (23). Arrested in 2013, 2014 and 2015, they have been produced before magistrate’s courts only, and charges are yet to be filed in the high court against them. They are fasting to demand freedom as they are being held without charges being filed.

Three of them were rehabilitated after the war in 2009 and were allowed to return home, after which they were arrested again.

Two prisoners at Anuradhapura Prison are on a fast for the second day today.