{"id":153277,"date":"2015-11-10T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=153277"},"modified":"2015-11-13T03:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T22:06:20","slug":"tamil-political-prisoners-restart-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tamil-political-prisoners-restart-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Political Prisoners Restart Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tamil+political+prisoners&amp;x=17&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tamil political prisoners<\/span><\/a> have restarted a hunger strike demanding a general amnesty despite a government decision to release some of the inmates on bail conditions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153278\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tamil-Political-Prisoners-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153278\" class=\"wp-image-153278 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tamil-Political-Prisoners--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Tamil Political Prisoners\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tamil-Political-Prisoners--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tamil-Political-Prisoners-.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-153278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to authorities at the Prisons department, the first batch of Tamil political prisoners numbering 30 will be released tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this fact, prisoners numbering around 200 are on a hunger strike again demanding an amnesty for all the inmates, a prisons official said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile opposition Leader R. Sampanthan said another 31 prisoners will be released on 20 November. But a firm decision on the fate of the rest of the prisoners has not been taken.<\/p>\n<p>After a five day hunger strike last month the Tamil prisoners chose to suspend their fast after President Maithripala Sirisena assured to expedite the processing of their cases.<\/p>\n<p>However later the government said it has decided not to grant a common amnesty to the Tamil prisoners but will expedite bail procedures for a section of the Tamil prisoners who are charged with minor offences.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tamil political leaders, at least 300 Tamil political prisoners arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act are in jails across the island.<\/p>\n<p>However, Justice Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-political-prisoners-in-this-country-justice-minister-rajapakshe\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe on several occasion has said that there are no political prisoners<\/span><\/a> held in any of Sri Lanka&#8217;s prisons and some of the LTTE suspects held in the prisons currently are already serving sentences and others are awaiting court action. 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