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Pul-i-Charkhi prisoners on hunger strike over conditions

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Hundreds of prisoners at the Pul-i-Charkhi jail on the eastern outskirts of central capital Kabul have been denying food since last night, sources said on Monday, but the jail’s officials rejected the hunger strike claim.

One of the prisoners at the jail, Anaruddin, told Pajhwok Afghan News nearly 700 inmates of the second block had gone on hunger strike since last night.

Anaruddin, a resident of central Maidan Wardak province, has been at the facility over the past six months over . . .

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