KUALA LUMPUR: Dozens of Sri Lankan asylum seekers have gone on a hunger strike at a detention center in Malaysia, a month after authorities forced them off a leaking boat, officials said Thursday.
Sixty-one people have refused to eat since Tuesday and plan to continue their hunger strike until they are recognised as refugees and get access to international rights groups, said Nalini Elumalai, a representative of Malaysian human rights group Suaram.
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