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Three prominent activists detained in Egypt’s Tora prison ended a hunger strike they had launched earlier in March after the prison’s administration responded to their demands, Mada Misr reported on Thursday, citing the bother of one of detained activists. Writer and activist Ahmed Douma, sentenced to 15 years, lawyer and activist Ziyad El-Eleimy, serving five years, and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, imprisoned for four years, launched a hunger strike in protest of the mistreatment they had reportedly suffered inside the maximum-security prison, lawyer Mohamed Douma had told Mada Masr. All t…