No permits issued to protesters for hunger strike

Over 200 protesters who were excluded from the lower interest loans for the “100 Thousand Apartments” project are continuing the second day of their sit-in strike at Sukhbaatar Square. They are the people who were successful applicants in the program “100 Thousand Apartments” launched by the former Government but have been left without their lower interest loan because the new Government halted the program and finances.

Even though those people announced they would call a hunger strike at the square the Sukhbaatar District authorities refused to issue them a permit to protest.

The reason behind the refusal to issue a permit was because the protesters did not give enough information about what the aim was in calling the hunger strike, the number of strikers, what facilities would be used and the start and finish dates of the strike in the petition.

The strikers plan to re-submit a petition to call a hunger strike. They claim that they will call a hunger strike nevertheless if there is no reply in three days after the petition has been resubmitted.