Monday, February 28, 2011

Spokesman for the 300 immigrant hunger strikers in Greece addresses rally.


Spokesman for the hunger strikers at a rally last wednesday.

300 immigrants in Athens and Thessaloniki have entered their 35th day of a hunger strike aimed at securing residence papers.

From today onwards they will be refusing the sugar solution whicg they have been taking till now. With several hunger strikers hospitalised doctors have warned that they now risk the threat of permanent organ damage.

Greece currently grants asylum to less than 0.1% of applicants and has been repeatedly condemned by the UNHCR, Amnesty International and the governments of Sweden, Germany, Holland and Norway for its treatment of immigrants.

For more on the background to the situation check out these blogs (written in a variety of languages, including English).

hungerstrike300.espivblogs.net/

allilmap.wordpress.com/

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