{"id":664033,"date":"2022-05-20T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/20\/tamil-refugees-detained-by-uk-on-chagos-islands-go-on-hunger-strike"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:23:42","slug":"tamil-refugees-detained-by-uk-on-chagos-islands-go-on-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/20\/tamil-refugees-detained-by-uk-on-chagos-islands-go-on-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil refugees detained by UK on Chagos Islands go on hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-two hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by UK military<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/srilanka\">Sri Lankan<\/a> Tamil refugees who have been detained for more than seven months in a military base on an overseas territory claimed by Britain have gone on hunger strike in despair at their plight.<\/p>\n<p>The 42 hunger strikers are part of a group of 89 Sri Lankans, including 20 children, whose boat was intercepted and escorted to Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean by the British military after running into distress while apparently headed to Canada from India in October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/20\/tamil-refugees-detained-by-uk-on-chagos-islands-go-on-hunger-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-two hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by UK militaryDozens of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who have been detained for more than seven months in a military base on an overseas territory cla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2677,3294,6,640,10,2038,2678,46901,1314,1,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664445,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664033\/revisions\/664445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}