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Death row inmates at Mahara and Welikada prisons called off hunger strike
Death row inmates at the Mahara and Welikada prisons called off their respective hunker strike protests after five days, a senior official from the Department of Prisons said.
At the Welikada and Mahara prisons, more than 150 death-row inmates commenced their hunger strike for the last five days demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa commute their death sentences to life imprisonment.
Another group of prisoners staged a rooftop protest on top of Chapel Ward at the Welikada Prison in solidarity with the hunger strikers. There are currently about 500 inmates at various prisons who are on death row.
The protests came after former parliamentarian Duminda Silva, sentenced to death for murder, was released on a Presidential pardon on last Thursday.
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