Social activist Irom Chanu Sharmila has been forcibly taken away by the police from a small makeshift shelter outside the government-run hospital in Imphal where she was continuing her fast after being released from jail on Wednesday. Official sources said that 42-year-old Sharmila has been taken for a medical check-up after she declined to eat or drink. Sharmila said she will continue to fast till her demand for withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, AFSPA is met.She has been on fast for the past 14 years and was recently absolved of the charge of trying to commit suicide.A former journalist and social activist, Sharmila had launched her fast unto death on November 2000 after Assam Rifles killed 10 persons at Malom area in Manipur in an alleged encounter with insurgents. She has been in jail for the past many years and was released time to time and rearrested again and again under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code for attempting to commit suicide.Manipur Home Minister Gaikhangam said the government is prepared to protect and look after the health of the social activist.