76 Prison Inmates Att Mahara Prison Had Commenced A Hunger Strike -

 Around 76 Prison inmates attached to Mahara Prison who had been sentenced to death  had commenced a continuous  hunger strike since this noon (24) demanding to convert their Death sentence to life imprisonment since the date they have sentenced ,

Meanwhile around 20 Prison  inmates attached to Welikada prison in Colombo had also launched a protest on a roof of one of the prison buildings  demanding the same it has been reported ,

According to the present law a Prisoner who had been sentenced to death needs to await few years to convert their sentence  to a life imprisonment ..