{"id":1134,"date":"2008-01-18T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T11:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/18\/public-asked-to-fast-along-hindraf-isa-detainees\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T14:40:16","slug":"public-asked-to-fast-along-hindraf-isa-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/18\/public-asked-to-fast-along-hindraf-isa-detainees\/","title":{"rendered":"public asked to fast along Hindraf ISA detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"470\">\n<tr>\n<td>Hindraf 5 to begin hunger strike on Monday<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/77199\"> http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/77199<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jan 18, 08 4:58pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Five Hindraf leaders will go on hunger strike beginning Monday to protest against being detained without trial after organising anti-discrimination protests.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders were jailed last month under draconian internal security laws, after they enraged the government by holding an unprecedented mass rally.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said that the Hindraf leaders would fast for seven days from Monday, and would be joined by supporters across the nation who will hold an eight-day public hunger strike starting Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hindraf leaders are going on a hunger strike and we want to show the people&#8217;s support for them,&#8221; M Kulasegaran, one of the lawyers representing the five detainees, told<em> AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He said the action was aimed at protesting against the detention of the five, and to demand an end to what they say is marginalisation of ethnic Indians in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who said he is willing to walk the talk and listen to the people, has all of a sudden used an old technique to silence the people,&#8221; said Kulasegaran, who is also an opposition politician.<\/p>\n<p>The five are being held at the Kamunting detention centre in Perak, some 300km from Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Held in isolation 16 hours a day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kulasegaran said he met with the activists on Tuesday and that they were in high spirits but were being held in isolation for 16 hours a day and were denied access to reading materials.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the public hunger strike would be staged in several locations across the country, including at a Hindu temple in Ipoh where some 100 participants were expected to take part.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindraf 5 to begin hunger strike on Monday http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/77199 Jan 18, 08 4:58pm Five Hindraf leaders will go on hunger strike beginning Monday to protest against being detained without trial after organising anti-discrimination protests. The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders were jailed last month under draconian internal security laws, after they enraged the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}