He later called it off at 4 pm.Mugilan said in his petition to SP (Prison) Urmila that he was staging the hunger strike to exert pressure to release Thirumurugan Gandhi. 

Condemning the arrest of May-17 Movement Coordinator Thirumurugan Gandhi on sedition charges, human rights activist and remand prisoner RS Mugilan staged a hunger strike inside the Madurai Central Prison on Wednesday. He later called it off at 4 pm.Mugilan said in his petition to SP (Prison) Urmila that he was staging the hunger strike to exert pressure to release Thirumurugan Gandhi

தமிழ்நாடு காவல்துறை தலைவர், தலைமைச் செயலர், உள்துறைச் செயலர் ஆகியோர் இணைந்து மே 17 இயக்கத்தின் ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளர்
திருமுருகன் மீது போடப்பட்டுள்ள குண்டர் தடுப்புச் சட்ட வழக்கினை ரத்து செய்து, மனித உரிமை மீறலில் இருந்து அவரை மீட்க வேண்டும் என்று மக்கள் கண்காணிப்பகம் வேண்டுகோள் விடுக்கிறது.

Expressing its concern over the arrest and detention of May 17 Movement coordinator Thirumurugan Gandhi and 3 others by the state government last year, the UN Working Group (UNWG) on Arbitrary Detention has held that there was no ‘legal basis justifying the deprivation of liberty’ of the quartet.

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Significantly, India did not respond to the communications from the UNWG, which rendered its opinion in November 2017 and the report of the same was recently made public.