KABUL - Afghan lawmaker Baktash Siawash and several journalists have ended their hunger strike in protest of media censorship after they were promised their demands would be met.

Speaker of the Parliament Abdul Rauf Ibrahim told TOLOnews Monday that the strikers were told their demands would be discussed, and the strike had ended.

Ibrahim had called Siawash himself to tell him that all the issues and conflicts between the media and the parliament will be solved, and asked him to end the strike – offering him a bottle of water.

The group began the strike Monday morning to protest the Parliament's attempts to curb media freedom, but it was over by Monday evening at Ibrahim's request.

However, Parliament's Secretary General Khudai Nazar Nasrat warned Siawash and the other journalists that they may face legal action for incitement.

"I will introduce you to the Attorney General over incitement," Nasrat said.

Before starting the hunger strike, Baktash Siawash had said that he would continue the strike until all the problems of censorship and limitations on the media were removed by the parliament.

"I will continue my hunger strikes as long as the problems of the journalists and censorship continues," he told reporters at the front gate of the Afghan Parliament where he sat with the other strikers.

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are widely considered to be one of the main achievements of the Afghan government in the past decade, but recent moves to introduce more restrictions in the media law have shown that these gains may be weaker than they appear. (Tolo News)