The International Red Cross met Monday with a Mongolian government official to request information about people detained following the post-election rioting in July. 

Tieri Mierat, a Head of the East Asian Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross met with Mrs. Solongo, The Chief Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia.  Tieri Mierat said he was seeking general information about those rioters being held in jail, as well as more specific details about eight prisoners who had begun a hunger strike. 

Rioting followed this year’s national elections on the night of July 1. Rioters, claiming fraudulent elections, burned down the headquarters of the ruling Mongolian Revolutionary People’s Party, as well as businesses and an art museum. 

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