Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Christmas Island have ended a hunger strike over the length of time it takes immigration officials to process their applications.
A group of more than 100 Tamils at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre started a hunger strike on Friday.
An Immigration Department spokesman told AAP on Saturday that the Tamils had ended their protest.
Refugee advocates said the Tamils were protesting at having to wait more than six months for their applications to be processed, while others have had to wait an average of just 107 days.
They were also upset over a mobile phone ban and the placement of nine Tamils, charged over riots last year, in a higher security compound.
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