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KABUL, May 12 (KUNA) -- Inmates suspected to be Taliban have restarted
eating food after a weeklong hunger strike at a prison in Afghanistan's
southern city of Kandahar.
The hunger strike was ended by some 200 prisoners following a group of
legislators assured them that their just demands would be communicated to
President Hamid Karzai while their cases would be reviewed by the Supreme
Court.
The lawmakers, who visited the prison on Monday and talked to the inmates,
told journalists that the prisoners started taking food from today.
They said one of the main demand of the prisoners was that they were jailed
in fabricated cases following which the delegation assured them that their
cases would be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
Many prisoners in Afghan jails are being kept for months and years without
any trial. Same situation was also seen in Kandahar, where the inmates stopped
taking food as a protest. Officials said some of those kept in jails without
trial have been there for as long as two years. (end)
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